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  2. Combat shotgun - Wikipedia

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    The shotgun was used by Allied forces and Allied-supported partisans in all theaters of combat in World War II, and both pump and semi-automatic shotguns are currently issued to all branches of the US military; they have also been used in subsequent conflicts by French, British, Australian, and New Zealand forces, as well as many guerrillas and ...

  3. Gun control in Germany - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty of Versailles included firearm reducing stipulations. Article 169 targeted the state: "Within two months from the coming into force of the present Treaty, German arms, munitions, and war material, including anti-aircraft material, existing in Germany in excess of the quantities allowed, must be surrendered to the Governments of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers to be ...

  4. Nazi gun control argument - Wikipedia

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    When the Nazi party gained power, some aspects of gun regulation were loosened for Nazi party members only. [5]: 672 The laws were tightened in other ways, such as specifically banning ownership of guns by Jews. Nazi laws systematically disarmed so-called "unreliable" persons, especially Jews while relaxing restrictions for Nazi party members.

  5. Disarmament of the German Jews - Wikipedia

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    The legal foundations that the Nazi Party later used for the purpose of disarming the Jews were already laid during the Weimar Republic.Starting with the Reichsgesetz über Schusswaffen und Munition (Reich law on firearms and ammunition), enacted on 12 April 1928, weapon purchase permits were introduced, which only allowed "authorized persons" the purchase and possession of firearms.

  6. Gun law in Austria - Wikipedia

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    1994 – pump-action shotguns are banned. A few hundred were turned in, 2,000 were registered and legalized and around 40,000 disappeared and went illegal. 1996 – today – Weapons Act is passed in accordance with EU law. [1]

  7. Gun laws in Poland - Wikipedia

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    In general, only handguns and rifles were banned; illegal possession was punished by jail of up to 5 years. Shotguns were traditionally allowed in Soviet Russia as hunting weapons, permits being issued by local administration. Illegal possession of a shotgun was treated as a misdemeanor and punished by a confiscation and fine.

  8. Gun control in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    Cases of stolen weapons were also brought to criminal justice. After the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, the USSR saw a small wave of liberalisations for civilian gun ownership. Soviet civilians were allowed to purchase smoothbore hunting shotguns again, even without mandatory submission of hunting licenses.

  9. Irish Republican Army (1922–1969) - Wikipedia

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    At the start of the war, they had just under 7,000 rifles, a few machine guns and a handful of armoured cars taken from British garrisons (who were under orders not to fire on IRA units) as they evacuated the country. The remainder of anti-Treaty IRA arms were shotguns (3,000 of which were confiscated after the Civil War) and other civilian ...