Just saw this Katrina video showing gun confiscation

[Bang4Buck]

Wow. Never even knew this happened. Obviously mainstream media didn't cover this. I'm sure someone else posted on this. I'm just floored and felt a need to share:

http://www.nranews.com/ginny/video/new- ... st-katrina" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Redneck_Buddha]

Yup...not covered at all but happened in a big way, leaving people vulnerable to the criminals and rogue criminal cops.

[Bang4Buck]

We should be more understanding. After all, the government is doing this for our own protection, right?

[Bang4Buck]

Ya know I got to IL all the time for work. They have some of the strictest gun laws in the country. In fact, I believe they just recently (finally) passed CHL laws. Yet southside Chicago is an absolute war zone.

[EEllis]

Wow. Never even knew this happened. Obviously mainstream media didn't cover this. I'm sure someone else posted on this. I'm just floored and felt a need to share:

http://www.nranews.com/ginny/video/new- ... st-katrina" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I hate to say it but I was there and this isn't an accurate portrayal in my experience.

[JP171]

Wow. Never even knew this happened. Obviously mainstream media didn't cover this. I'm sure someone else posted on this. I'm just floored and felt a need to share:

http://www.nranews.com/ginny/video/new- ... st-katrina" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Actually it was covered in the mainstream media and did in fact cause quite a ruckus. Several states enacted laws that make this illegal post Katrina


Louisiana legislator Steve Scalise introduced Louisiana House Bill 760, which would prohibit confiscation of firearms in a state of emergency, unless the seizure is pursuant to the investigation of a crime, or if the seizure is necessary to prevent immediate harm to the officer or another individual. On June 8, 2006, HB 760 was signed into law.[83] 21 other states joined Louisiana in enacting similar laws. A federal law prohibiting seizure of lawfully held firearms during an emergency, the Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act of 2006, passed in the House with a vote of 322 to 99, and in the Senate by 84-16. The bill was signed into law by President Bush on October 9, 2006.[84]

[JP171]

Wow. Never even knew this happened. Obviously mainstream media didn't cover this. I'm sure someone else posted on this. I'm just floored and felt a need to share:

http://www.nranews.com/ginny/video/new- ... st-katrina" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I hate to say it but I was there and this isn't an accurate portrayal in my experience.

yea well oblivious people weren't with us guardsmen that were told to take them, hmmm

and this wasn't the only person to be injured during the unlawful confiscation of firearms

Controversy arose over a September 8 city-wide order by New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass to local police, U.S. Army National Guard soldiers, and Deputy U.S. Marshals to confiscate all civilian-held firearms. "No one will be able to be armed," Compass said. "Guns will be taken. Only law enforcement will be allowed to have guns." Seizures were carried out without warrant, and in some cases with excessive force; one instance captured on film involved 58 year old New Orleans resident Patricia Konie. Konie stayed behind, in her well provisioned home, and had an old revolver for protection. A group of police entered the house, and when she refused to surrender her revolver, she was tackled and it was removed by force. Konie's shoulder was fractured, and she was taken into police custody for failing to surrender her firearm.

[Bang4Buck]

Wow. Never even knew this happened. Obviously mainstream media didn't cover this. I'm sure someone else posted on this. I'm just floored and felt a need to share:

http://www.nranews.com/ginny/video/new- ... st-katrina" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I hate to say it but I was there and this isn't an accurate portrayal in my experience.

How was this inaccurate? I seriously don't know. Seems like they got sued and lost for a reason.

[Bang4Buck]

I hope there would be people like this around.

[EEllis]

Wow. Never even knew this happened. Obviously mainstream media didn't cover this. I'm sure someone else posted on this. I'm just floored and felt a need to share:

http://www.nranews.com/ginny/video/new- ... st-katrina" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I hate to say it but I was there and this isn't an accurate portrayal in my experience.

How was this inaccurate? I seriously don't know. Seems like they got sued and lost for a reason.

I'm not out top trash anybody but this is a "fake" news type of thing. Look at the film of the old lady being tackled. They show before they show during but they left out the little bit where they start the arrest, like maybe she got a little careless waving the gun around? Not that it excuses the illegal orders that I do believe they gave but it is about being dramatic and telling their story not being accurate IMHO. The cops and NG and heck the aspca were going door to door and kicking in every building where they didn't get an answer, but they were not dragging people out for the most part. With enough different groups and agencies I'm sure someone did wrong in just about every way you can think of but people who were out of the water were not being dragged out. Maybe it was a racial profiling thing or just the area I worked but everyone had better things to worry about then the few residents who might have guns.

[jmra]

Wow. Never even knew this happened. Obviously mainstream media didn't cover this. I'm sure someone else posted on this. I'm just floored and felt a need to share:

http://www.nranews.com/ginny/video/new- ... st-katrina" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I hate to say it but I was there and this isn't an accurate portrayal in my experience.

How was this inaccurate? I seriously don't know. Seems like they got sued and lost for a reason.

I'm not out top trash anybody but this is a "fake" news type of thing. Look at the film of the old lady being tackled. They show before they show during but they left out the little bit where they start the arrest, like maybe she got a little careless waving the gun around? Not that it excuses the illegal orders that I do believe they gave but it is about being dramatic and telling their story not being accurate IMHO. The cops and NG and heck the aspca were going door to door and kicking in every building where they didn't get an answer, but they were not dragging people out for the most part. With enough different groups and agencies I'm sure someone did wrong in just about every way you can think of but people who were out of the water were not being dragged out. Maybe it was a racial profiling thing or just the area I worked but everyone had better things to worry about then the few residents who might have guns.

I lived in NOLA for 30 years. I have heard many recount these stories. Perhaps you would be willing to share exactly what "area" you worked.

[EEllis]

I lived in NOLA for 30 years. I have heard many recount these stories. Perhaps you would be willing to share exactly what "area" you worked.

Garden district. As you must know there were many people who didn't leave. They didn't get dragged off. There was a curfew and you had to be careful but they stayed the whole time. The biggest concern I remember was that if they left they couldn't get back in not that the cops would make them leave. Did it happen? I'm sure it did I just don't remember it being a major concern. Food and water were issues and people would line up at the dome for MRE's and the NG would sometimes take MRE's with them to pass out when they were on patrol, but everyone seemed busy enough without dragging people out of town. Again I'm sure it had to of happened somewhere I just don't remember it as an issue at the time.

[jmra]

I lived in NOLA for 30 years. I have heard many recount these stories. Perhaps you would be willing to share exactly what "area" you worked.

Garden district. As you must know there were many people who didn't leave. They didn't get dragged off. There was a curfew and you had to be careful but they stayed the whole time. The biggest concern I remember was that if they left they couldn't get back in not that the cops would make them leave. Did it happen? I'm sure it did I just don't remember it being a major concern. Food and water were issues and people would line up at the dome for MRE's and the NG would sometimes take MRE's with them to pass out when they were on patrol, but everyone seemed busy enough without dragging people out of town. Again I'm sure it had to of happened somewhere I just don't remember it as an issue at the time.

The fact that it was the Garden District speaks volumes. Most of these people's homes have been in their families for generations. They are well known by the local officers and have a very strong sense of community. This uptown area has always been treated a little differently by city hall than the rest of the city so I'm not surprised that the same strong arm tactics weren't mandated for those patrolling this area.

[RPBrown]

I remember the media covering this rather extensivly at the time. They showed police and NG carrying out confiscated weapons, legal or not. They were doing it.

[SewTexas]

I remember the media covering this rather extensivly at the time. They showed police and NG carrying out confiscated weapons, legal or not. They were doing it.

they showed it, EEllis you were in an area that was going to behave and honestly if y'al would have done it there the PR that would have come from it would have be bad enough to reach pretty great heights, no one cared about the regular peons having their rights revoked.