Avalon; about"Gun control laws" How about we look at this; Hitler disarmed 9 million Jews and killed over 6 million. Mao’s first act after gaining complete control of China in 1949 was to take away all guns from the population. It was a policy he began in 1935 as he took over each rural province. Anyone found with a gun post-confiscation was executed. 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. More people die for NOT having a gun! Avalon.