Snejdarek
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I've added a new section on history of Czech gun laws to the Wikipedia:
Gun_laws_in_the_Czech_Republic#History
Some interesting facts that I learned while researching the issue:
- Habsburgs are considered enemy occupants in the country. Yet gun laws were pretty permissive during their rule.
- Even after the failed 1848 revolution, the new gun law remained permissive.
- As the ethnic German minority's paramilitary groups started terrorist operations in 1938, a new Firearms Act was adopted that aimed at introducing licensing also for firearms possession. It never got into force as history started moving pretty fast. Also the fact that Germany was smuggling weapons to the terrorists frustrated its purpose.
- Communist ban got less restrictive in 1983. The rules of late communist Czechoslovakia seem pretty similar to today's rules in, say, Germany.
- While there was significant liberalization following 1990, things like concealed carry full auto or full-autos converted to semi-autos as shall issue became possible only after 2002 (as well as number of other funs, like PDW).
Let me know your thoughts, please do not hesitate to correct my English.
Gun_laws_in_the_Czech_Republic#History
Some interesting facts that I learned while researching the issue:
- Habsburgs are considered enemy occupants in the country. Yet gun laws were pretty permissive during their rule.
- Even after the failed 1848 revolution, the new gun law remained permissive.
- As the ethnic German minority's paramilitary groups started terrorist operations in 1938, a new Firearms Act was adopted that aimed at introducing licensing also for firearms possession. It never got into force as history started moving pretty fast. Also the fact that Germany was smuggling weapons to the terrorists frustrated its purpose.
- Communist ban got less restrictive in 1983. The rules of late communist Czechoslovakia seem pretty similar to today's rules in, say, Germany.
- While there was significant liberalization following 1990, things like concealed carry full auto or full-autos converted to semi-autos as shall issue became possible only after 2002 (as well as number of other funs, like PDW).
Let me know your thoughts, please do not hesitate to correct my English.