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genocide of German Jews—the disarming of the citizenry made possible by gun registration and confiscation laws adopted during the Weimar Republic. The parallels to today's gun control debates in the United States are bone-chilling, and ought to raise a red flag call to action for all freedom-loving Americans.”
    â€” John C. Eastman , Henry Salvatori Professor of Law and Community Service, Chapman University; Founding Director, Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence
    â€œStephen Halbrook's Gun Control in the Third Reich provides a stark example of why defenders of liberty must oppose any attempts to limit our ability to defend ourselves from private and public criminals. Halbrook's work is especially timely since so many in Washington are once again trying to convince the people they have nothing to fear from gun registration and other infringements on our Second Amendment rights.”
    â€” Ron Paul , former U.S. Congressman and candidate for President of the United States
    â€œThe fascinating book Gun Control in the Third Reich deals with firearms regulation in Germany from the beginning of the Weimar Republic in the early 1920s, when guns began to be heavily regulated, through the early days of World War II when gun ownership was punishable by death, through the Third Reich in 1945 when the government began to allow Germans access to weapons to fend off the Russian invaders…. Professor Halbrook does not claim that Hitler and the Holocaust would not have occurred had the population of Germany been armed. Nonetheless, firearms in the possession of individuals, especially Jews after they were ghettoized, might have raised the costs to the Nazis and slowed them down.”
    â€” William A. Schroeder , Professor of Law, Southern Illinois University
    â€œEven a defense with small arms against a tyrannical regime, if known, can galvanize public opinion, which is the ultimate source of all political authority. That is why, as Halbrook authoritatively shows in Gun Control in the Third Reich , the Nazis—despite their massive military force—went out of their way to confiscate even small caliber weapons in Germany.”
    â€” Donald W. Livingston , Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Emory University
    â€œStephen Halbrook's meticulous research in Gun Control in the Third Reich sheds new and revealing light on the consolidation of Nazi power and the prosecution of the Holocaust. Everyone, including advocates of gun controls, should find this pioneering and thought-provoking book essential reading.”
    â€” James B. Jacobs , Warren E. Burger Professor of Law, New York University; author, Can Gun Control Work?
    â€œ Gun Control in the Third Reich is Stephen Halbrook's best book. He shows how the destruction of gun ownership, gun clubs, and self-defense was part of the National Socialists’ extermination of civil society, individualism, and the Rule of Law.”
    â€” David B. Kopel , Adjunct Professor of Advanced Constitutional Law, Denver University Sturm College of Law; author, Guns: Who Should Have Them? ; Research Director, Independence Institute
    â€œIn Gun Control in the Third Reich , Halbrook is particularly effective in showing how the path for Nazi totalitarianism was cleared, though inadvertently, by firearms laws of Weimar Germany. The political objective of those laws was to enhance the public welfare by diminishing the ability of the population to inflict violence on each other. What followed instead was something not foreseen by the principled, well-intending Weimar democrats who carried that policy into execution. Those laws—heavily laden with official discretion—left disfavored minorities perfectly helpless when Hitler and the Nazi government came to power. Halbrook's book is the most complete depiction of a story that is interesting in itself, and which has lessons for our own place and time.”
    â€” Daniel D. Polsby , Dean and Professor of Law,