Read it yourself and see what you think, then remember they could just as well have said it was any other part of the Constitution or Bill of Rights that does not apply to the people in NO or LA.
Statement from Chris Cox on NRA'sLawsuit Against the City of New Orleans
Today, in a landmark victory for NRA and law-abiding gun owners, Judge
Carl J. Barbier of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
denied the City of New Orleans' motion to dismiss NRA's lawsuit against the city
and held that the Second Amendment applies to law-abiding residents in the State
of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans. Straining the bounds of credibility
and reflecting the true sentiment of anti-gunners, the City of New Orleans
contemptuously argued that the Second Amendment does not apply to residents in
the State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans.
NRA first
filed suit after reports surfaced indicating that, following Hurricane Katrina,
firearms were confiscated from law-abiding New Orleans residents. Former New
Orleans Police Chief Eddie Compass issued orders to confiscate firearms from all
citizens, under a flawed state emergency powers law. With that one order, the
one means of self-protection innocent victims had during a time of widespread
civil disorder was stripped away.
NRA filed suit in federal court
and won a preliminary injunction ending all the illegal gun confiscations. After
the City of New Orleans failed to comply with the court's ruling and dishonestly
claimed that the gun confiscations never occurred, NRA filed a motion for
contempt that included an order directing all seized firearms be returned to
their rightful owners.
After denying the illegal confiscations for
months, on March 15, 2006, Mayor Nagin and the New Orleans Police Department
finally conceded in federal court that the seized firearms were stored in two
trailers. The city then agreed in court to a process by which law-abiding
citizens would be able to file a claim to receive their confiscated firearms.
However, few firearms were returned because the NOPD never notified gun owners
how to claim their guns, and turned many away citing impossible standards for
proof of ownership.
Today's ruling sets the stage for a continued
legal fight in which NRA will be forced to expend additional resources to fight
back the anti-gunner's blatant and shameful attempts to ignore the Second
Amendment. The case will now move to discovery and pre-trial
preparation.
NRA will keep you informed of future developments
regarding this case.
If you would like to make an online contribution to
support NRA-ILA's efforts in this case, please visit https://secure.nraila.org/Contribute.aspx.
It was first paragraph alonethat got my blood to the boiling point so much so that it welled up enough within to pour down over my retinas and make me see red. Does the mayor or governor, or the attorneys working for NO or LA (the state) think that they are running a gulag in which their citizens have lost their Constitutional rights? Exactly what is it with them that they would have the unmitigated audacity to contend that the 2nd amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America does not pertain to the people of both New Orleans or LA?
For that alone, I believe, both the mayor and the governor should be impeached, maybe even arrested and tried for anything that would apply. It is coming to the point where there may well be talk of armed insurrections against local or state governments of the same ilk. I do not condone such, but I think I would probably understand why they would take place. It is almost as if we are becoming prisoners in this country, held captive by our politicians, who are acting very much like oppresive tyrants.
All the best,
Glenn B
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