about time
PING!
Guns cause epilepsy???
Bravo!!
Good news indeed. Now how about returning the stolen firearms?
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.
Local law officials in NOLA would have been happy when only the gun looters had firearms.
Great news.
I did not even know this was going on.
Oh my god! A mayor deciding to suspend one article of the constitution. Wow!
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?
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.
Now, after the cleanup, prosecute those responsible and put them in prison. Set an example.
Praise be SAF and NRA!
Please don't jump my case here. I know that the term "Marshall law" does not exist in Louisiana law. I followed threads on the subject of Marshall law in NOLA, and read articles in the Times Picayune, etc. dealing with the subject.
After reading up on the subject, it seemed to me that: 1) Louisiana's constitution allowed for the declaration of a cumbersome equivalent of suspension of civil rights, and, 2) that LA's governor and NO's mayor had taken steps to invoke it.
So the question is, if civil liberties have been suspended by whatever the established means are under the state's constitution, isn't it legal to seize guns even though the civil right is granted in the US Constitution. NOTE: I'm not saying it's right, I'm asking if it's legal once civil rights have been suspended.
bttt
It's a start.
free dixie,sw
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana this afternoon issued a temporary restraining order on behalf of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and National Rifle Association (NRA), bringing an end to firearm seizures from citizens living in and around New Orleans.District Judge Jay Zainey issued the restraining order against all parties named in a lawsuit filed Thursday by SAF and NRA. Defendants in the lawsuit include New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Police Chief Edwin Compass III.
“This is a great victory, not just for the NRA and SAF, but primarily for law-abiding gun owners everywhere,” said SAF founder Alan M. Gottlieb. “We are proud to have joined forces with the NRA to put an end to what has amounted to a warrantless gun grab by authorities in New Orleans and surrounding jurisdictions.
“Over the past three weeks,” he continued, “residents who had lost virtually everything in the devastation following Hurricane Katrina had also essentially been stripped of something even more precious, their civil rights, and their right of self-defense, because of these gun seizures.