Posted on 09/12/2005 2:47:09 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
BELLEVUE, WA – Following low-key inquiries that were met with stony silence and official indifference, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today is calling for a federal investigation into reports of gun seizures from law-abiding New Orleans residents, and is demanding that officials there immediately account for all confiscated firearms.
CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb is also demanding that New Orleans police officials immediately stop the seizures, disclose where those firearms are being kept, how they are secured, the type and number of firearms involved, and how those guns will be promptly returned to their rightful owners, in the condition in which they were originally taken.
"I also want to know under just what authority New Orleans officials are confiscating lawfully-owned firearms from law-abiding citizens," Gottlieb said. "Where does it say that the state and federal Constitution can be nullified, even briefly, simply because of a hurricane? In every other natural disaster this country has ever faced, people retain their civil rights, including the right of self-defense, but New Orleans and Louisiana state officials have added the sin of arrogance to incompetence and negligence for which they must be held accountable when this is over."
Gun rights activists have been outraged by a film clip showing a police officer tackling an elderly woman who was armed, in her own home, and later removing her from the premises.
"We know this is only one incident that is being replayed incessantly, and that not all the circumstances are known," said CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron, "but this incident, combined with statements by local officials, particularly Police Superintendent P. Edwin Compass III, that nobody but police will be allowed to have guns, demands a full and complete explanation to the American public. Visiting police and National Guardsmen are in New Orleans to help hurricane victims, and the nation is grateful beyond words. You don't help people by violating their civil rights or the public trust."
"There are reports that residents who refuse to leave are being disarmed, anyway," Gottlieb added, "leaving them to the mercy of any lingering looters and thugs. If true, it is unconscionable. In the anarchy that reigned in the city for days, these armed citizens provided the only protection for their families, businesses and neighborhoods when many police walked off their jobs, and a few even participated in the looting, and the world knows it. The people responsible for making that decision should be immediately disciplined and relieved of command. Visiting officers from other jurisdictions involved in these confiscations should be immediately sent home.
"New Orleans is still part of the United States, not a police state," Gottlieb concluded.
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States. The Citizens Committee can be reached by phone at (425) 454-4911, on the internet at www.ccrkba.org or by email to InformationRequest@ccrkba.org.
Nagin will probably be selling them out of the back door of his office...
according to our own hflynn, taking guns away from the law abiding citizens is okay because there are criminal out there using guns to break the law!
Oh, and the police are part of the mililia, too, so they can take away guns. Whatever that has to do with anything.
PING!
The 2nd is one right the ACLU apparently doesn't mind seeing slip away.
When the DemonKats run the show, they make up the rules as they go along, don't you know ...
That video was posted here on FR somewhere. The day after I saw it, I saw a Fox News headline that said "No Force Used Yet in Gun Confiscations". Uhm... the video SAID Fox News, IIRC? Anyone else remember it?
LOL!
I would like some accountability on this issue. Personally, I would like to see some indictments.
If anyone can show me in the constitution where a hurricane or a flood gives the government the authority to wholesale confiscate the firearms of otherwise law abiding citizens, I'd like to see it.
It's about time. Let's see if AG Gonzales is as supportive of the 2nd Amendment as John Ashcroft is. Somehow, methinks not.
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Can't you read the Constitution? It's right there, next to the right to murder unborn children!
IMO, there is never justification for seizure of guns UNLESS the guy is shooting at authorities. It can't come under the due process section because guns are made a special case by the 2nd amendment.
Heads should roll on this one.
Been going on for years under domestic violence laws. Many a scorned woman has made an unsubstantiated allegation in order to ensure her boyfriend or husband loses his guns. Judges believe that it is better that 99% of men falsely accused be deprived of their 2nd Amendment rights than 1% commit violence with a gun. The Second Amendment is dead in many ways. All one needs to do is claim the confiscation is being done "for women" or "for the children."
I thought that 'CCRKBA' stood for 'Central Colorado Roadkill Beeber Association'.
That's just it.
look at Crawford Texas.
Bush's neighbor blows off a little steam testing his guns on his own property. It is investigated, and the authorities leave because it was a legal act.
contrast that with a democratic run city and state, and you see who will break down doors of law abiding citizens with no warrants, and then illegally steal their guns.
Blanco needs to be arrested and charged.
This is more outrageous than other outrages coming from this cesspool.
I only regret I have so few fingers for so many guns.
mc
"Nagin will probably be selling them out of the back door of his office..."
Nah, his buds don't like those guns. They prefer the ones with the sights mounted on the right side of the slide so they can hold the pistol in their familiar horizontal grip style.
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