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Soviet leader Brezhnev. When guns are restricted, they become status symbols and the rulers pose with them. That doesn’t mean they support gun ownership for the “proles”. The first gun control on record, the 1518 prohibition on wheel locks, was authored by the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian I, an avid collector of advanced firearms for his own use.
But it hardly matters, as the photo is most likely a fake.
