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Posted on 09/23/2005 2:11:08 PM PDT by neverdem
(Fairfax, VA) -- The United States District Court for the Eastern District in Louisiana today sided with the National Rifle Association (NRA) and issued a restraining order to bar further gun confiscations from peaceable and law-abiding victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
“This is a significant victory for freedom and for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The court’s ruling is instant relief for the victims who now have an effective means of defending themselves from the robbers and rapists that seek to further exploit the remnants of their shattered lives,” said NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre.
Joining LaPierre in hailing the U.S. District Court decision was NRA chief lobbyist Chris W. Cox. “This is an important victory. But the battle is not over. The NRA will remedy state emergency statutes in all 50 states, if needed, to ensure that this injustice does not happen again."
The controversy erupted when The New York Times reported, the New Orleans superintendent of police directed that no civilians in New Orleans will be allowed to have guns and that “only law enforcement are allowed to have weapons.” ABC News quoted New Orleans’ deputy police chief, saying, “No one will be able to be armed. We are going to take all the weapons.”
The NRA also pledged that it will continue its work to ensure that every single firearm arbitrarily and unlawfully seized under this directive is returned to the rightful law-abiding owner.
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Thanks for the updates.
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.
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.
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).
5.56mm
God Bless the NRA
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!
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.
Didn't they also take that 1860 Henry rifle used at the Little Big Horn by Crazy Horse that I sold to you?
Why ?
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.
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.
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 :)
NRA Benefactor Member BUMP!
ping me!
“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.
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.
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