FEDERAL JUDGE HALTS NEW ORLEANS GUN SEIZURES

Second Amendment Foundation ^ | September 23, 2005 | Second Amendment Foundation

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

This is good news!

[phil112]

about time

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[msf92497]

Guns cause epilepsy???

[tamalejoe]

Bravo!!

[Horatio Gates]

Good news indeed. Now how about returning the stolen firearms?

[CindyDawg]

Give that old lady her gun back, NOW!

[andyk]

Way to go NRA and SAF!

NRA Life Member BTTT!

[Hank Rearden]

Thank God for SAF, NRA and JPFO - because the "justice" Dept. sure as hell wasn't of any help taking the lead here. Too busy looking for pot smokers and porn peddlers, no doubt.

[dervish]

Local law officials in NOLA would have been happy when only the gun looters had firearms.

Great news.

[indianrightwinger]

I did not even know this was going on.

Oh my god! A mayor deciding to suspend one article of the constitution. Wow!

[billnaz]

Gun-grabbers all over the country are wondering what hit them!

BTW, where is Hizzoner Mayor Nagin? Haven't seen anything of him on TV since the levees broke (again). Is he holed up with his family in Dallas?

[opticks]

Somebody help me out here...were the cops taking guns from people by force or coercion, or were they collecting them (sans owner) in houses they raided looking for survivors?

[Ken H]

Has anyone seen the ruling, or know on what basis the court ruled? I'd be very surprised (and pleased!) if the court found a Second Amendment violation. My guess is that they were either upholding some LA RKBA statute, or found some procedural problems with how the policy was carried out.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Now, after the cleanup, prosecute those responsible and put them in prison. Set an example.

[diogenes ghost]

As usual, a zany court ruling, too little, too late.

[CindyDawg]

They were finding armed survivors in their homes and taking their guns and then forcing them to evacuate.

[B4Ranch]

the cops taking guns from people by force!

[Gaffer]

I've realized over time, that it is much harder and distasteful for any 'agent of the government' to SEIZE
your weapons IF they KNOW your guns ARE LOADED!

[stan_25]

Somebody help me out here...were the cops taking guns from people by force or coercion, or were they collecting them (sans owner) in houses they raided looking for survivors?

From the reports that I have seen, the cops and the military were taking the weapons from houses that were empty, while the houses were being searched for bodies and survivors. That does not mean that they have been frisking the people that remained to relive them of the weapons that they had on their persons.