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40 States And The Federal Government Prohibit The Seizure Of Guns During Emergencies
Crime Prevention Research Center ^ | 2-23-21 | Crime Prevention Research Center

Posted on 02/25/2021 9:44:20 AM PST by VictimsRightsPro2a

Forty states have laws that prohibit the seizure of guns during emergencies, six states have laws that allow such seizures, and four states and the District of Columbia have no such laws on the books. These laws largely passed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall on August 29, 2005. The 37 states that we are certain passed their laws after Katrina are: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

New Orleans police confiscated an estimated 1,200 guns. A week after the Hurricane’s landfall, New Orleans police superintendent Edwin P. Compass III made a widely publicized call for blanket confiscation: “Only law enforcement are allowed to have weapons.” As the New York Times reported: “no civilians in New Orleans will be allowed to carry pistols, shotguns, or other firearms of any kind.” Private security guards were exempted from the policy.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; cprc; disaster; emergency; guncontrol; guns; seizure
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1 posted on 02/25/2021 9:44:20 AM PST by VictimsRightsPro2a
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

Hmmm. Well, the NV legislature is in session so I may have some concerns about that issue. :-)


2 posted on 02/25/2021 9:46:04 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

Where in the constitution u tion does it state that we lose our second amendment rights In emergencies?


3 posted on 02/25/2021 9:53:02 AM PST by Bob434
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

Co. Ill. NM. MD. And NE all confiscate


4 posted on 02/25/2021 9:56:37 AM PST by Bob434
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

I’d love to see the look on my county Sheriff’s face when he gets the call, “Hey, you know that emergency that you have your deputies on overtime for? Well, we want you to drop all that and pick up everybody’s guns.” Yeah, Skippy, we’ll get right on that...


5 posted on 02/25/2021 10:03:13 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Bob434

Maybe that is a reason GOD sent me from my beloved New Mexico and Colorado to the Ozarks.


6 posted on 02/25/2021 10:03:15 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Could be. Divine providence.


7 posted on 02/25/2021 10:19:02 AM PST by Bob434
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

We’re in an emergency right now due to the wuhanvirus

So, no gun confiscations in those 40 states.


8 posted on 02/25/2021 10:25:11 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

But then during hurricane Katrina the NOLP went around grabbing guns.


9 posted on 02/25/2021 10:27:27 AM PST by SkyDancer (Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

So just have your spouse hire you as their own Private Security.


10 posted on 02/25/2021 10:48:28 AM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

When the Biden / Harris administration starts confiscating citizens firearms, even in the states that have a law that prohibits citizen’s gun confiscation in an emergency, who is going to stop them? Maybe the person who is getting their guns taken can stand their ground for a few seconds but we all know how that scenario will end.


11 posted on 02/25/2021 11:14:14 AM PST by drypowder
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To: Bob434
We pretty much lose our Constitutional rights every time there is a war, whether or not it takes place on American soil.

All the politicians have to do is say we are now involved in a "War On X" and they're good to go in terms of limiting or abolishing our rights.

12 posted on 02/25/2021 11:23:39 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: drypowder
Maybe the person who is getting their guns taken can stand their ground for a few seconds but we all know how that scenario will end.

Well, as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn pointed out, if people would fight back, the state would very quickly run out of agents to send out on the tasks. The first 1% to 3% of the Rebels would suffer greatly for sure. No one wants to be that first 1% to 3%. If the state pushes past that line, though, it will run in to people that will fight back, and that will only embolden more and more to fight back.

13 posted on 02/25/2021 11:39:43 AM PST by Turbo Pig
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

HAHAHAHA. And the first amendment protects freedom of assembly. See how easy that went away?


14 posted on 02/25/2021 11:41:45 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Bob434

Nowhere


15 posted on 02/25/2021 11:52:21 AM PST by Bill of Rights FIRST
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

Ohio and Nebraska, y’all need to get that straightened out. The others are blue states so I expect nothing better from them.


16 posted on 02/25/2021 1:16:13 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a
When the states call for this action it is time to retire your legislature. as well as anyone that try's to enforce it

and to self promote my handle:

"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it".. Thomas Jefferson

Or if you want a more modern call to repel these treasonous bastards, use Murphy's rules for combat.

When in doubt, empty the magazine

17 posted on 02/25/2021 3:16:46 PM PST by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. TJ)
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To: Bob434

The governor of Maine said she could nullify any law or create any law. All she had to do was say it was an emergency.


18 posted on 02/25/2021 4:47:55 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: SkyDancer

A lot of NOPD went over the hill. Outsiders were brought in. I remember hearing the comment “You think they came all that way NOT to shoot somebody?”


19 posted on 02/25/2021 10:21:54 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: SkyDancer

Many of the states changed their laws after Katrina (2005) and the federal statue, the Stafford Act, was updated in 2007 if memory serves.

The citation is 42 USC 5100


20 posted on 02/26/2021 5:43:03 PM PST by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" )
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