From: yoony@aix.rpi.edu (Young-Hoon Yoon)
Subject: Re: JFFO has gone a bit too far
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rats@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Morris the Cat) writes:


>|>Would somebody please post evidence that the gun control act of
>|>1968 is "a verbatim transcription" of a nazi law?

>|The "evidence" is that the two laws are basically identical.
>|However, that's not evidence that one is a copy of the other.

>|There's no evidence that the 68 GCA's authors used the nazi law as a
>|guide.  Yes, they ended up with roughly the same thing, but that comes
>|from their shared goal, disarming those menacing minorities.

>I thought the same thing too, until JPFO's RKBA article 
>in the latest Guns & Ammo
>at the newstands. This article makes it certain that Sen. Thomas Dodd
>(D-MD?) back before 1968 definitely asked for a translation of the 
>German weapons laws back then. Read the article, and see what you think
>of JPFO's argument. They note that Ted Kennedy and John Dingell are
>among the three of the originals left from the 1968 stuff, and they
>are asking that folks request of John Dingell that he introduce 
>legislation to lift GCA '68, something which I would support whole-
>heartedly!

>|-andy

Can someone post a general idea of what GCA '68 does?
Thanks.

