Originally posted by Mojava
I was under the impression that the guns where taken from abandoned houses . If you legally owned a gun, you could go and pick yours back up at the police station. That seems pretty reasonable to me.
In looking into all this I found multiply sitings of the same thing this site reports...
http://www.gunsandammomag.com/second_amendment/0506r/Excerpt:
In the chaotic aftermath of the storm, New Orleans Police Superintendent P. Edwin Compass III announced that all privately owned firearms would be seized. "No one will be able to be armed. Guns will be taken," Compass declared. "Only law enforcement [will be] allowed to have weapons."
Louisiana, like many other states, issues concealed carry weapons permits to law-abiding individuals. Compass's order did not distinguish between stolen guns and legally owned guns; therefore, he was in violation of Louisiana statute.
After the confiscation order was issued, police and National Guard personnel began searching empty houses for firearms, and TV camera crews filmed numerous instances of forced entry.
California TV station KTVU captured on videotape the most disturbing gun-confiscation incident. An 82-year-old woman stood in her small kitchen, surrounded by police in tactical gear and several TV cameramen. In the open palm of her hand she held a knife and a small revolver. Neither of the weapons was pointed at the police officers.
The police ordered her to hand over the two weapons. When she did not immediately comply with the order, she was gang tackled by three burly police officers, who pinned her to the kitchen floor. The officers then hustled her out to a flatbed truck, lifted her aboard and drove away.
Some police officers told reporters that the confiscation order was issued after Army, Coast Guard and police helicopters were fired upon while flying over the city. It is reasonable to assume that the shooters responsible for these attacks used illegal firearms, which would not simply be handed over when the police and National Guard knocked on the door.
There certainly was no shortage of guns available to criminals. In the wake of the storm, more than 1,000 guns were stolen from gun dealers in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. Only about 130 of these weapons were recovered.
(The Associated Press also reported that some police officers asked if they could borrow guns from citizens. The officers explained that they were outgunned during running street battles with armed criminals.)
The New Orleans city government has a long history of antipathy toward private gun ownership, and there are many large cities dominated by anti-gun mayors and city councils. If, God forbid, there is another terrorist attack on a major city, law-abiding gun owners should be prepared for the "New Orleans treatment."
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