1938 Regulations Against Jews' Possession of Weapons

The 1938 Regulations Against Jews' Possession of Weapons (German: Verordnung gegen den Waffenbesitz der Juden) was a law implimented in Nazi Germany on the 11th of November. It's jurisdiction was specifically the areas of Austria and Sudentenland. Jews, as defined by German Law, where forbidden the possession of any form of weapons, including truncheons, knives, firearms and ammunition for such arms. Prior to this law legal enforcers had taken it upon themselves to use the existing stipulation of 'trusthworthiness' to disarm Jews. The law was a segment of gun law reform carried out by the Nazi Party in 1938. The Waffengesetz being the first segment of these reforms. This first segment deemed that members of the Nazi Party, armed forces, and such civilian organizations as Hitler's Youth no longer needed permits for fire arms. Other groups targeted for disarmment included homosexuals and gypsies. The law against Jews owning weapons is used by anti-gun control organizations to resist gun control as a force that empowers oppressors while the law relaxing gun regulations is used by gun control advoates to dismiss claims that the Nazis supported gun control even though the laws only gave such liberties to the desired population of the state while depriving such liberty from those deemed undesired.