re: #3 Buck

The original Weimar Republic constitution from 1919 provided no right to arms, and later the 1928 regulations were about limiting firearms that could fall into the hands of Communists and Nazis - the two biggest factions that were intent upon violence.

The laws didn’t prevent the Nazi rise, and the Nazis ended up modifying the laws in several significant ways with the 1938 gun control law. In some respects, the opened up firearms ownership to more people, but specifically excluded Jews.

But by 1938 Jews were being systematically and ruthlessly drummed out of society in every way imaginable. Any firearm regulation targeting Jews was only adding insult to injury as the Nuremberg laws of 1935 were far more harmful to Jewish rights than the gun control law in 1938. Stripping ownership rights to property, operating businesses, and further segregating the Jewish population from their non-Jewish neighbors.

And to give further sauce to the goose, Kristallnacht occurred before the gun control law was passed.

November 11, 1938 - when the Nazis passed the law specifically prohibiting Jews from firearms ownership.

Kristallnacht - November 9-10, 1938. It was used in part as an excuse to expand the Nuremberg laws and pass the gun control act against Jewish ownership specifically.