The Anti-Defamation League says a National Rifle Association board member from New Jersey was out of line to suggest similarities between gun control efforts and Nazism.
Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs executive director Scott Bach made the remarks last week on an NRA News program. The remarks came during a discussion of a Jersey City policy to ask gun makers about their safety records as part of their bids to sell firearms and ammunition to the police department.
Bach said Democratic Mayor Steve Fulop should know better than to institute the policy because his grandparents were Holocaust survivors.
The Anti-Defamation League has been campaigning against tying the Holocaust and Nazis to politics, particularly in gun control.
Bach hasn’t returned a phone message left Monday.
(AP)
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NRA is right.
With judenrat “leaders” like ADL we usually end up in ovens of Auschwitz.
The NRA is right on target. Indeed, one of the first thing the Nazis did when they came to power was to deprive Jews of the right to bear arms (and in the US, the first civil rights case involved a Jew suing the Dutch government for the right to bear arms). People who are armed can defend themselves. If Jews had been better armed (which is rare, since historically we didn’t have the right to bear arms, since we were never fully “free” and gun ownership is reserved from the first class citizens) we would have been better able to defend ourselves.
YWN should contact the various Jewish gun clubs for a response to the ADL instead of uncritically reprinting its drivel.
Get off this pc nonsense. Our govnt happens to b way out of control
Well one of the first things the Nazis did in power was to seize all the guns from the Jews,Albert Einstein was raided. And the NJRPC is a different org than the NRA. Similar views but different groups. And besides, other Jewish groups have made the same comments about gun control and nazis, even some rabbanim have (most stay out but a few have not). The ADL sometimes needs to calm down