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Karl Marx, Eugene Debs, Malcolm X, and Huey Newton views on the topic of firearm ownership can be found here

. In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the manufacture, possession, and trade of explosives or ammunition, in addition to the storage of most firearms, could all be done so long as the user had a permit.

‘Other people’s republics like the former Yugoslavia and nationalist states like Libya guaranteed widespread gun ownership. In the Soviet Union and the other Warsaw Pact republics, military‐grade education that included the assembly and use of guns was mandatory for all students in middle school onward, according to Joseph S. Roucek’s October 1960 article, ‘Special Features of USSR’s Secondary Education’.’

Not only did the Soviets have gun rights, but they also gave all students, regardless of gender, premilitary training in a class (simply named Basic Military Training) for grades nine and ten. The educator would usually be a retired military officer. Among other things, one would have to take apart an AK (model depending on the military standard of the current year) and reassemble it, learning to do so within thirty seconds at least. They also taught students to fire small caliber rifles, either semiautomatic or bolt action on a range that could be 25–100 meters. They also taught the basics of strategy, tactics and other necessary knowledge. There were almost no school shootings in the U.S.S.R. with the exceptions of one at the Lyamino School during 1958 and one in the Leningrad higher military political school of Ministry of Internal Affairs during 1977 (which caused seven and six deaths plus six and two injuries, respectively); it also appears that accidental deaths by firearm were quite rare.

The Soviet Republics encouraged civilian gun use and awarded good sharpshooting, for example the paramilitary award (before 1953) Voroshilov’s Sharpshooter: awarded to over several million people, civilian and military alike. The DOSAAF managed sports use, which is why Soviet snipers were some of the world’s best.

In 1953 the Soviet of Ministers promulgated the ‘On Hunting’ law, postulating that one should vend hunting arms and ammunition with no licensing requirements whatsoever and that the Ministry of Defence should ‘improve the production of guns for the benefit of gun‐owners, develop and manufacture new better and cheaper guns.’ Additionally there were organizations such as OSOVIAKHIM that provided free training in sharpshooting and education in gun culture. According to the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R. of May 11, 1959 № 478 ‘On measures to improve the management of hunting’, they cancelled the free sale of smoothbore hunting rifles. They granted the right to hunt with hunting firearms to all Soviet citizens who were members of the hunter’s society; people who passed tests on the hunting minimum and paid the state fee in the prescribed amount. To purchase a smoothbore hunting rifle, it was necessary to present a member’s hunting ticket of the hunter's society; in the industrial hunting areas (for furs) they established a different procedure. Hunting was commonplace and they regulated it only within the prevention of harming animal populations. (Compare this now with the Russian Federation and its extensive poaching.) To quote one article on the subject, ‘perhaps 90% of the people in isolated regions (of the USSR) hunt for pleasure or profit.’

Extant Armed Peasant‐Worker Organizations include the Territorial Troops Militia and the Worker‐Peasant Red Guards. During the short twentieth century you also had the Albanian People’s Army, the Combat Groups of the Working Class, the Patriotic Guards, the People’s Militia, and the Workers’ Milita.

Concerning the Soviet poster, ‘Citizens! Hand in your arms!’: This was a wartime measure in 1918–1921 due to the critical lack of weapons available to the Red Army in the middle of the conflict. It is no different to U.S. WWII posters encouraging people hand in their metal, paper and silk to their imperialist army. The confiscation of weapons from those resisting or involved in sabotage is no different to any other revolution in which the counterrevolutionary elements are disarmed.

(There are no sources about gun control beginning in 1924 and 1929; only decrees from 1918 and 1920 when technically the U.S.S.R. was not even in existence yet. One source of these claims is a scurrilous monarchist webshite that makes fallacious claims that gun ownership, and that everything was far ‘better’ under the Tsar. It also fails to actually quote any of the degrees from 1924 onward, only describing its supposed contents.)

Starting from 1926 the Soviets declared personal ownership of shotguns and smoothbore guns (with less than 6mm caliber) legal. ‘Policemen were responsible for gun control,’ writes Katherine Bliss Eaton in Daily Life in the Soviet Union (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004): ‘Private citizens and institutions could own hunting weapons if they had police permission and registered their guns at the local station house. The militia could confiscate weapons and ammunition from people who showed signs of dangerously irresponsible behavior.’ (You decide whether or not that’s unreasonable.)

The penalties for not observing these were first surprisingly moderate. Before 1935, noncompliants either risked prison terms of less than one year or fines. They introduced a five year prison term was in the run‐up to the Yezhovschina of 1937, unless somebody brought in more serious charges. Up until the 1960s, lots of people carried around lots of different guns. If the police asked questions about these, all that anybody needed was some kind of documentation that proved that the government handed out the weapon to them. This changed at the end of 1960s only after the first incidents of aeroplane hijacking with the use of firearms occurred.

They drastically cut the number of non‐military government officials entitled to service weapons. Use of firearms for self‐defense outside of the home could result indictment for ‘excessive use of force’ until further investigation (something no different to the U.S.A. which has tightened its aeroports further and further, and has been placing ‘excessive use of force’ charges regularly). The Criminal Code of the R.S.F.S.R. 1960, Article 218, details imprisonment or fines for illegally owned or produced weapons; certain firearms, explosives, &c.

In the 1960s, socialist Prime Minister Enver Hoxha stated this:

‘All our people are armed in the full meaning of the word. Every Albanian city‐dweller or villager, has his weapon at home. Our army itself, the army of a soldier people, is ready at any moment to strike at any enemy or coalition of enemies. The youth, too, have risen to their feet. Combat readiness does not in any way interfere with our work of socialist construction. On the contrary, it has given a greater boost to the development of the economy and culture in our country.’

The socialist chairperson Máo Zédōng famously stated that ‘Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.’ This has sometimes been cited as his impetus for supposedly disarming the public, but the People’s Republic of China had no firearm regulations. He was praising firearms.

Hundreds of thousands of Cubans own firearms. The Republic of Cuba’s constitution itself states that all citizens have the right to struggle through all means, included armed ones, against anybody who tries to overthrow the political, social, and economic order. Indeed, Castro ordered that all proletarians (including women) be armed for the defence of their home. The government began a programme of armament to the entire Cuban populace and training it in basic military tactics.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s constitution states that ‘The State shall implement the line of self‐reliant defense, the import of which is to train the army to be a cadre army, modernize the army, arm all the people and fortify the country on the basis of equipping the army and the people politically and ideologically.’ As of 2017, the DPRK is nevertheless the people’s republic with the lowest gun ownership rate: 0.3, but this rate is still higher than that of South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, and a few other capitalist states! Similarly, the gun ownership rate in the BRV is 18.5, which is actually much higher than that of Colombia (10.1).

Possibly the only otherwise prosocialist administrations to legislate firearms prohibitions are the Republic of Chile in the early ’70s and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in 2012. It’s unlikely that these troublesome regulations existed to defend the governments, though. In the former case, it’s likely that the Chilean Presidency thought that they could rely on the army’s loyalty and viewed René Schneider and Carlos Prats as representatives of the attitude of the armed forces, or the Presidency thought that disarmament would help stop violent antisocialists like Patria y Libertad. In the latter case, it was in response to rising crime rates: the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela’s attitude about the crime and homicide rates in the country up to that point was ‘crime is the result of poverty’, but after nearly a decade of skyrocketing murder rates despite significant reductions in poverty in the country, they prohibited firearms. (Obviously not particularly effective, given what has happened since then.)

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