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Gun-rights activists have pursued this kind of law since Hurricane Katrina, when New Orleans police confiscated guns in an attempt to restore order.

I wasn't in the situation, so I don't really know, but what would I (or any of you do) if we were in the situation there in LA? Would you have surrendered your guns? It's the kind of thing that they call us 'conspiracy nuts' for even dreaming about.

I remember well how the confrontation went in N.O. The National guard went house to house, in an area that wasn’t flooded, First they asked for their guns and then they searched the homes just to be sure.

Obviously the home owners were out gunned and over powered.

You should consider this and have something in reserve, very well hidden and be prepared to give up something as well.

Or die on the spot, not a good option.

I probably would have surrendered them if I had them in N.O., because the jackboots would likely have shot me if I didn't. That doesn't make it right, however. Did any of the N.O. residents deprived of their property rights sue? They could have filed a federal suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, located in New Orleans, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The way I see it, the gun confiscators violated the 2nd amendment (right to keep and bear arms), 4th amendment (right to be secure in your home and in your person), and 14th amendment rights (due process rights from the 5th amendment incorporated to the states through the 14th amendment) of the gun owners.

I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations on the civil suit have run by now, but they could have potentially sued any National Guardsman they came in contact with that took their property (guns) from them. They also could have sued the National Guard generals (or other officers in charge) that ordered the enlisted men to carry out the confiscation.

Maybe they would have been awarded only nominal damages (like $1, plus return of any filing fees, etc.), but at least the government would have been sent a message that what it did to New Orleans residents was not only unconscionable, but, indeed, UNCONSTITUTIONAL.