Episode 329. The straight-line “roadmap to confiscation” is a story, not a legal path. This episode rebuilds it the way a 2026 lawyer has to: under Heller, McDonald, Bruen, Rahimi, and the June 2026 Hemani decision. Six phases, and it branches. A prospective rule is not a down payment on taking guns people already own. Each prohibited-person category has to win its own historical fight. Registration is not a skeleton key. If the endpoint is still unconstitutional, the mechanism is an amendment, not another bill.The back half is how disarmament actually happened where it happened. Weimar registration and the November 1938 Jewish weapons decree. The December 1918 Soviet surrender order. Armenian disarmament in 1915. Khmer Rouge confiscation in 1975. Then the contrast cases: Australia’s 1996 compensated buyback, and Venezuela’s 2012 sales ban that produced neither a monopoly nor a drop in homicide. Emergency, loyalty, a list, and a deadline.The roadmap here dies in court. The roadmap that worked elsewhere was a list, an enemy, and a deadline.
District of Columbia v. Heller (2008): https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/07-290
McDonald v. Chicago (2010): https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/08-1521
New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen (2022): https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/20-843
United States v. Rahimi (2024): https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/22-915
United States v. Hemani (June 18, 2026), opinion: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/24-1234
Hemani case page: https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/united-states-v-hemani/
Congress.gov essay on Hemani: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/intro.9-4-8/ALDE_00000135/
Germany
Disarmament of the German Jews, including the Weimar 1928 law and the November 1938 decree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disarmament_of_the_German_Jews
Text of the Regulation Against the Possession of Weapons by Jews, November 11, 1938:
https://www.jugend1918-1945.de/ND/default.aspx?root=18383&id=31499
Soviet Russia
Sovnarkom decree on surrender of weapons, December 10, 1918:
http://istmat.info/node/31996
Cheka background and execution figures: https://www.worldhistory.org/Cheka/
Ottoman Empire
Chronology of disarmament, labor battalions, and deportations, 1915:
https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/en/document/extermination-ottoman-armenians-young-turk-regime-1915-1916.html
Cambodia
Small Arms Survey working paper on private ownership and 1975 confiscation: https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/sites/default/files/resources/SAS-WP4-Cambodia.pdf
Australia and Venezuela
RAND review of the 1996 National Firearms Agreement: https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/essays/1996-national-firearms-agreement.html
InSight Crime, first year of the Venezuelan disarmament law: https://insightcrime.org/news/brief/less-than-1-of-guns-off-venezuela-streets-in-a-year-of-disarmament-law/
Homicide trend after the 2012 sales ban: https://crimeresearch.org/2016/04/venezuela-homicide-rate-rose-after-2012-ban-on-private-ownership-of-guns/
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