Instructions: In this task, you're given a sentence and your task is to generate a simplified sentence that focuses on lexical paraphrasing from the original sentence given in the input.
Input: article 166 was meant to control the possession of arms , but it was used to target armenians by restricting them to possess arms.
Output:
article 166 was meant to control the possession of arms but it was used to target armenians by restricting to them to possess arms.