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Weapons control laws have a long history in Anglo-American jurisprudence. One of the first such documented laws, the Assize of Arms (Statute of England, 1181), contained a stringent weapons control provision directed against all Jews. It forbade any Jew from possessing even a coat of mail or a breastplate. Eight years later, a vicious anti-Semitic mob of rioters attacked the Jews of York, England. The attack precipitated an uneven fight in which Jewish resistance collapsed because the Jews had “few weapons” (Grayzel, 1968, p. 307). As a result, virtually the entire Jewish community of York was annihilated.
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Caplan, D.I. (1991). Weapons Control Laws. In: Sank, D., Caplan, D.I. (eds) To Be a Victim. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5974-4_18
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