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Originally Posted by alvin
This reminds me one question that I don't know the answer. Could someone help?
Back some time ago, I saw an ad on gunbroker.com selling a Mauser pistol rig. The seller said his father or grandfather "bought it in the Third Reich just before it collapsed in 1945" (not exact words, but accurate enough).
I was wondering.... in that era, could German citizen buy a gun? Or, his father or grandfather must serve in German military to buy that gun? Theorically possible?
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I heard it's a Nazi achievement to require firearm registering in 1930s, the street would become safer and police would be more efficient blah blah (info from unfamiliar site years ago)..... absolutely no interest in politics here..... but could German civilian buy guns in that era?
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Dear Alvin,
Private weapon ownership was not forbidden during the Nazi regime, but it was regulated in a way which privileged persons belonging eg. to the NSDAP, SS, Hitler Jugend (Higher ranks).
Regular citizens had to apply for permits:
- To purchase and own: The Waffenbesitzkarte
- To carry: The Waffenschein.
Permit could be withdrawn at any time.
For jews, communists and other persecutees it was virtually impossible to own weapons legally.
So it was certainly not implausible to buy a commercial Luger from a german civilian.
In Germany of today, Weapon ownership is regulated much stricter than it was in the Third Reich,
however it is of course applied on a democratic base not privileging certain segments of the population.
I hope this helped answer your question.
Have a nice time,
Thomas