Does it matter if the Nazis took away the guns from the population? Underground fighters and sepratists carried on Fifth column actions against the Nazis with various degrees of success with the help of sporting rifles, hand made single shot guns, and captured weapons is probably closer to what really happened.

My knowledge of history is very, very good. But I have to say that I don't know the minutia of the Freedom Fighters in Europe during the second world war. I don't know the local and regional history of France or Germany, or Spain or Holland. I know of the Maquis but very little beyond that they existed and were a thorn in side of the German Occupation of France and Belgium.

Could they have one the war alone and overcome the Nazi military? It is doubtful. It is doubtful whether it would have happened if they Freedom Fighters had their own weapons and saw the war coming. Without British and American Armies in Europe the German military would have subjugated the continent and probably attacked the US mainland ion time.

There is just too much more to consider than whether or not private gun ownership would have stopped the war in Europe if the populations had their own guns. Such as, did the private population have their own tanks, flamethrowers, grenade launchers, and light and heavy machine guns? It would have taken more that some bird guns and schutzen rifles to stop the German military.

I am a gun owner and I won't give up my guns if asked. I have a right to own them and I am no a criminal. It has nothing to do with protecting my country against enemies foreign or domestic. It has to do with a government that I help to elect every year deciding it knows better than the founding fathers as to what my rights are and ought to be. Give up one right for some altruistic principal and you have lost all your rights.

Don