[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Exactly!

Hitler- Brown Shirts.

The Nazis used them, and then took Them out after they’d served their purpose.

[trubolotta]

I think that lesson has not been lost on Medvedev and Putin. Both advocate stronger gun control in a country that already has among the toughest gun control laws on the planet. The Russian people may well demand the return of communism and only then will the government act against criminals - even recruiting them into the security forces and revitalized KGB.