- 27 Nov 2018 21:47
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Isn't this begging the question though as these policies came after the October Revolution in an effort to prevent counter-revolution?
"It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals... is incompatible with freedom."
- Patrick Henry
ingliz wrote:By the end of 1917 the authorities had restricted the right to carry firearms.
In 1918 the Bolsheviks initiated a large scale confiscation of civilian firearms, outlawing their possession and threatening up to 10 years in prison for concealing a gun.
The only exception was made for hunters who were allowed to possess smoothbore weapons. Gun licenses, however, were strictly regulated and only issued by the NKVD.
Isn't this begging the question though as these policies came after the October Revolution in an effort to prevent counter-revolution?
"It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals... is incompatible with freedom."
- Patrick Henry