Major Victory For Firearms Owners And Freedom In Louisiana

NRA-ILA ^ | September 23, 2005 | NA

[cgk]

Nagin responds to NRA suit

Friday, 10:49 p.m.

Staff reports

In response to a lawsuit filed by the NRA, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said Friday night that he never authorized the taking of weapons from citizens.

The National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit in federal court, claiming that the confiscation of guns from private citizens, as ordered by New Orleans Police Chief Eddie Compass, was a violation of the Second Amendment. On Friday, a restraining order was issued in federal court barring any further weapons from being taken.

Nagin's office issued a statement Friday that Compass made statements about taking weapons from citizens without Nagin's knowledge. Compass said no weapons had been taken.

Nagin said Friday night that he has no intention of issuing orders to confiscate weapons.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the updates.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Something about how he reacted instead of lead...or how he urges agencies to overlook the legal status of those affected. Or appointing an unqualified hobknobbing fop to a position of critical importance in the first place.

Dammit George, I really hate seeing you blow the cred you built after 9-11 - but your open borders policy, devotion to undercutting American business's survival by pushing free instead of fair trade, "uniting not dividing" the Democrat and Republican Parties' agendas until I can't tell them apart anymore (huge government, huge deficit, group over individual rights, mandatory federal mandates trodding over states...)

Considering all that how can we blame Karl for not pointing out the violations of the 2nd Constitutional Amendment? As President you could point out that the 14th only applies to children born under our jurisdiction, which would carry weight toward reversing the anchor-baby magnet. You could tell Fox that his governments' support of the continual unarmed invasion equals undeclared war. You could devote a mere fraction of the billions blown for BS on actually building an effective barrier while enabling locals new employment opportunities by manning it.

Fooled me twice - shame on me. I so miss Ronald Reagan.

[xzins]

They all thought the storm was the worst thing about New Orleans.

In order it was:

1. The flood
2. The gross violation of 2nd Amendment rights.

The really incredible thing is that they could have shot those who refused to part with their weapons....and they would have had the thing glossed over. Thank God it didn't come to that.

[Quiller]

They're lucky no cops got shot up trying to confiscate firearms. I supposed it's possible some did, and we never heard about it.

Can you possibly believe we wouldn't hear about police being shot as a result of attempting to confiscate weapons? It would be playing from now until doomsday, with a tagline that would say something like, "Firefight Erupts As Police Try to Protect Citizens," or some other spin-ish nonsense.

Some media and political CO2 generators would expound on the dangers of the "rampant gun culture." Carefully edited clips would reveal the outrageous actions of gun owners. Teddy would call for an investigation and a double scotch (not in that order).

[Joe Brower]

Thanks for the ping, neverdem!

[M Kehoe]

I like good news pings.

5.56mm

[Vision]

God Bless the NRA

[Inyo-Mono]

This is great news. I'm glad to see my NRA donations have helped. Just imagine the power the NRA would wield if only every gun owner in America joined!

[Squantos]

We'll see if it stops the Cheif Compass's next time.....each incident is different as idiots "on all sides" of a disaster panic and deprives the law abidding of the basics for self defense.

After the fact fixes are nice.....

NRA needs to stay on this, spread the news to each and every risk manager and state attorney general, local polidiots and LEO's as to how HIGH they hang Nagin, Blanco's and Compass's butts for disarming folks in such a manner.

I still want that POS's name who body slammed that 80 year old lady who asked them politely about 4 times on tape to leave HER HOME as she could take care of herself....he's my new hobby.

[Inyo-Mono]

All I know is that, despite the fact that I live in Connecticut, they took from me a matched pair of consecutively numbered Colt SAA's, a H&K .40 S&W, half a dozen Glocks in various calibers, a set of Parker shotguns, one 12 ga and one 20 ga., an original Winchester 73, a pre 1964 Remington model 7, a really nice Benelli shotgun I've had my eye on, I mean I've owned for years. Let's see, there were so many others......

Didn't they also take that 1860 Henry rifle used at the Little Big Horn by Crazy Horse that I sold to you?

[Squantos]

Why ?

[sam_paine]

the sheriff, acting on his own, and he should be made to pay (out the nose)!

For a civil suit, it'd seem like you'd need to prove that you were looted or robbed and could not protect your property and you could sue for those damages.

[Grut]

Well I guess all those NRA bashers are going to..., do what now?

Ask: when do we see federal criminal charges filed against individual New Orleans police officials under 18 USC 241, "Conspiracy against rights?" Hellooo, NRA?

Not a chance. The NRA's need to suck up to government makes it a miracle they've done as much as they have.

[P8riot]

I'm pretty sure they also took both your SIG 550s...

They took both of my suppressed full auto MP5s, and both of my full auto Vector UZI's about 20,000 rounds of ammunition. I want them back by tonight :)

[Decepticon]

NRA Benefactor Member BUMP!

[Allosaurs_r_us]

ping me!

[Travis McGee]

BTW, I just had a nice review of EFAD printed in the November issue of GUNS magazine. It was written by their gun rights columnist David Codrea. He asked me not to post it in its entirety for copyright reasons, but here is the opening paragraph:

“A stadium massacre leads to the banning of all semi-automatic rifles,” the teaser on the jacket reads. “But who really fired the fatal shots, and why?”

The answer, we learn, involves nothing less than a modern day Reichstag fire, engineered and instigated by an evil and ambitious ATF supervisor and his squad of violent agency misfits. The political fallout of the stadium shooting is a national ban on “assault weapons.” With free rein to create more “domestic terror” incidents, and with unprincipled politicians and a complicit media, gun owners are easily demonized as a manipulated public demands more “security.”

I hoping that this will give the book enough credibility to get it reviewed in the other mainstream glossy gun magazies now. It's tough for an unknown first time author to get traction, so this GUNS review might be a major step forward.

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

They were robbed; by the sheriff. He took their private property with no authority to do so. What is that other than stealing? And he did use his official position to pull off this shenanigan. He should face multiple criminal counts of official misconduct for this caper, be stripped of his office and sent to jail.

[river rat]

Congratulations Matt, I hope you sell a million....
I hope at LEAST several million right thinking Americans READ your book, and head immediately to their neighborhood gun store...

It was an ARMED militia of freedom loving Americans that founded this country and gave us the Republic that MUST be preserved and defended...


Arm thyself Neighbor -- the enemy is already amongst us..
Semper Fi