Here's a great article that summarizes a book. It taught me several things I didn't know. I hope you find it interesting.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018...-nazi-occupied-france-world-war-2-resistance/
"A new book by a prominent Second Amendment lawyer examines the history.
"The French came closer to having a Second Amendment than one might imagine. Indeed, they could have had one more clearly written than ours: Just a month after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, a draft of the Declaration of Rights stated that “every citizen has the right to keep arms at home and to use them, either for the common defense or for his own defense, against any unlawful attack which may endanger the life, limb, or freedom of one or more citizens.”
"Alas, it was not to be. That provision did not make it into the final document, though a vague right to “resistance of oppression” did.
Renowned Second Amendment lawyer Stephen Halbrook detailed this history in a 2012 article for the Fordham Urban Law Journal. And now, in his book Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France, he explains how French gun policy evolved over the centuries — and the consequences it had under the Nazi-puppet Vichy regime during World War II.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018...-nazi-occupied-france-world-war-2-resistance/
"A new book by a prominent Second Amendment lawyer examines the history.
"The French came closer to having a Second Amendment than one might imagine. Indeed, they could have had one more clearly written than ours: Just a month after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, a draft of the Declaration of Rights stated that “every citizen has the right to keep arms at home and to use them, either for the common defense or for his own defense, against any unlawful attack which may endanger the life, limb, or freedom of one or more citizens.”
"Alas, it was not to be. That provision did not make it into the final document, though a vague right to “resistance of oppression” did.
Renowned Second Amendment lawyer Stephen Halbrook detailed this history in a 2012 article for the Fordham Urban Law Journal. And now, in his book Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France, he explains how French gun policy evolved over the centuries — and the consequences it had under the Nazi-puppet Vichy regime during World War II.
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