NRA: The Untold Story of Gun Confiscation After Katrina
Posted by: Eric Linder | 07/28/2008 12:04 AM
From flash-floods to fires and earthquakes, Riverside County along with the rest of Southern California has had its share of disasters. The video below from the NRA explains how vulnerable we really are, and how simple it would be for our own government to completely violate our individual liberties. In this case, all that was needed was a natural disaster:
The video you will see on this web site is horrifying. The crimes committed against law-abiding gun owners are beyond comprehension. The arrogance of anti-gun politicians and government officials and their hate of freedom will churn your stomach.
The law is the law, the Constitution is the Constitution. If ONE local mayor or police chief can decide what the Second Amendment means, it opens the door to tyranny--where ANY mayor or police chief can say what the Second Amendment means.
You've seen this brand of abuse of freedom in the history books--in the pages about days of gun confiscations leading to the terror of Stalin, Mao and Hitler. But you'd never in a million years think it could happen in America.
Well, it can and it did. And it will happen again unless we take action today.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, Police Superintendent P. Eddie Compass unleashed a wave of confiscations with these chilling words:
No one will be able to be armed. We will take all weapons. Only law enforcement will be allowed to have guns."
Thousands of firearms were then confiscated from law-abiding gun owners. The police gave no paperwork or receipts for those guns. They just stormed in and seized them.
With your help we're going to make the first time in New Orleans the LAST time in America. Thank you!
Now, one year later, these crimes against gun owners have snowballed into a far greater threat to our freedoms.
Even though NRA secured a court order demanding their immediate and unconditional return, almost every single confiscated firearm remains locked in government trailers.
With the stroke of a pen, Mayor Nagin and Police Superintendent Compass are getting away with "murder" -- a savaging of the second, fourth and fourteenth amendments of our Constitution. And they have put America on notice that they're going to keep seizing lawfully owned guns under any pretense.
New Orleans gun owners are showing up at these trailers, with serial numbers of their firearms, expecting Mayor Nagin and his band of anti-gunners to respect the Federal courts.
They are met by stony-eyed bureaucrats who say serial numbers aren't enough--and that gun owners now need PROOF OF PURCHASE of these firearms.
How many of those gun owners do you think had original receipts for those firearms? And even if they did, how many do you think could find those receipts in the wreckage of a hurricane?
Many of these firearms were passed down from father to son, generation to generation. Some are precious heirlooms. Some are collector's pieces won in our wars. And they were all lawfully owned and they must be returned to their owners.
With your help we're going to make the first time in New Orleans the LAST time in America. Thank you!
The video you will see on this web site is horrifying. The crimes committed against law-abiding gun owners are beyond comprehension. The arrogance of anti-gun politicians and government officials and their hate of freedom will churn your stomach.
The law is the law, the Constitution is the Constitution. If ONE local mayor or police chief can decide what the Second Amendment means, it opens the door to tyranny--where ANY mayor or police chief can say what the Second Amendment means.
You've seen this brand of abuse of freedom in the history books--in the pages about days of gun confiscations leading to the terror of Stalin, Mao and Hitler. But you'd never in a million years think it could happen in America.
Well, it can and it did. And it will happen again unless we take action today.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, Police Superintendent P. Eddie Compass unleashed a wave of confiscations with these chilling words:
No one will be able to be armed. We will take all weapons. Only law enforcement will be allowed to have guns."
Thousands of firearms were then confiscated from law-abiding gun owners. The police gave no paperwork or receipts for those guns. They just stormed in and seized them.
With your help we're going to make the first time in New Orleans the LAST time in America. Thank you!
Now, one year later, these crimes against gun owners have snowballed into a far greater threat to our freedoms.
Even though NRA secured a court order demanding their immediate and unconditional return, almost every single confiscated firearm remains locked in government trailers.
With the stroke of a pen, Mayor Nagin and Police Superintendent Compass are getting away with "murder" -- a savaging of the second, fourth and fourteenth amendments of our Constitution. And they have put America on notice that they're going to keep seizing lawfully owned guns under any pretense.
New Orleans gun owners are showing up at these trailers, with serial numbers of their firearms, expecting Mayor Nagin and his band of anti-gunners to respect the Federal courts.
They are met by stony-eyed bureaucrats who say serial numbers aren't enough--and that gun owners now need PROOF OF PURCHASE of these firearms.
How many of those gun owners do you think had original receipts for those firearms? And even if they did, how many do you think could find those receipts in the wreckage of a hurricane?
Many of these firearms were passed down from father to son, generation to generation. Some are precious heirlooms. Some are collector's pieces won in our wars. And they were all lawfully owned and they must be returned to their owners.
With your help we're going to make the first time in New Orleans the LAST time in America. Thank you!


Wow. This is scary stuff. I can't imagine anywhere you would need a gun more than in the lawlessness that occured after Katrina.
And to ask for a reciptafter a hurricane for an illegally seized gun is just absured.
I live in St. Tammany parish and stayed during and after Katrina. I am a gun owner and not one of my guns was confiscated. Just say NO, when asked are you armed and be ready to shoot back. It is hard to hit someone that is shooting back. I would bet on 00 buckshot against an assault rifle in close quarters any day. If you are not willing to defend the 2nd amendment than you don't deserve to have the freedom it give you. Yes, and some day you will have to defend it against your own government. Our founding fathers knew that day may one day come and provided a means to defend ourselves, the 2nd amendment, in the days after Katrina we voluntarily gave up our rights by not fighting for them.
Calrk,
What are your thoughts on your new Governor? Is he any better on the issue?
I thought this was America, not Nazi Germany. The Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans and the Police Superintendent Eddie Compass are booth incompentent morons. They should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for violating the 2nd, 4th and 14 amendments. These 2 men think they are above the law...and why not because they will not be held to a higher standard.
They would rather protect the criminal element in their city rather than protect law abbiding citizens. Booth should resign..but won't. Nagin will be re elected by the same low-brows that put him in office.
Long live the 2nd ammendment!
There has been some good legislation passed in direct response to this. Essentially, it is protection from this happening again. See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_Recovery_Personal_Protection_Act_of_2006
One point of this though that didn't seem clear was the distinction between federal officers and local state-run departments.
Nevertheless - One day they will come knocking...