The Katrina grabbings did not last long.
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Most citizens still haven’t gotten their guns back even though the Supreme Court said the grabbings were illegal and the guns had to be returned.
Plus nobody was charged with these crimes. It is a federal criminal offense to violate someone’s rights under color of law.
In a just society the mayor who issued the illegal order and everyone who followed that order should have been arrested and tried in federal court. Those convicted should still be in prison.
Your point is correct, though tangential to mine.
AFAIK from those connected, there was some behind-the-scenes heated exchanges amounting to “stop the confiscations or we’ll stop you” from other more Constitutionally-minded departments. Hence, while some confiscations did occur (and still haven’t been resolved), the process came to a sudden halt. Notice that nothing of the kind occurred between Waco and Katrina - some 15 years; I expect we won’t see such confiscations again for about a decade (at which point some idiot forgets the lesson).