I was there before, during, and after and never had anyone try to take my weapons at home or while out and about. I went through numerous roadblocks within the NOLA city limits, loaded for bear in plain sight, and never had an issue. I also never met anyone that had this happen to them. The LE and .mil I dealt with were reasonable but most were on edge for sure(understandably). However, I am a sample size of one.
Unfortunately, confiscations only affect law abiding citizens. So when police asked those people if they had any weapons, they said yes. Nothing to fear from cops right? They just want to help, right?
Or some of them wanted to further victimize the victims of Katrina.
I met a NOLA LEO who is the cousin of the mentally challenged guy who was gunned down on the Danzinger Bridge. He tells me that there are barrels of rusting firearms in storage with no claimants.
Another NOLA SWAT officer I met told me the same thing.
On the one hand, the straight and narrow law abiding citizen in me says, go along with what the police instruct you to do, IE admit to having em and give em up.
On the other hand, the person who swore to defend our constitution says, thats a blatant violation of our rights and should be fought…
This really was a no win situation for the average joe citizen, you either willingly let your rights get stomped on by an uneducated idiot of a buerecrat, or you resist what are essentially good men doing what they were ordered to do, even though I think they should have known better than to obey those orders.
Sucks that in such a situation you cannot depend upon the police to be “officer friendly” going door to door to help out those in need. But since that is not the reality in NOLA (or most cities) when the police knock, DO NOT permit them to enter, demand to see a warrant. Not even sure you should answer the door.
I can tell you flat-out there’s no way in hell I’d go around confiscating people’s guns for no justification. I’d quietly disregard the order basically. A blanket order to seize peoples’ arms by some moron who makes a living pontificating from behind a desk can kiss my a$$.
Such times as Katrina and the LA riots are PRECISELY the times for which the 2nd Amendment was intended. Illegal orders are simply ILLEGAL, so to disregard them is in fact a duty in itself in something so obviously wrong. In extreme circumstances we sometimes have to protect the citizens from the government itself.
Disregard the order. Everyone has guns around here in the Eastern part of WA state. You would need tractor trailers to cart the amount of weapons just some smaller towns residents have. Shortly after moving here from L.A. a friend asked if I wanted to go hunting. I said I don’t hunt. He said well come for fun, I said sure. Went to his dad’s farm and went to the “room”, he said choose a rifle to carry just in case. There were literally 300-350 firearms of varied styles and calibers. I had to decide which .308 to choose out of a displayed size of 20. Yeah, I am no taking anybodys firearms away up here, too many and would prove futile.
What scares me is that if such an event, like Katrina, happend in NJ, the cops know exactly who has the weapons, which ones, and how many. All my weapons had to be registered when purchased, pistols had to have a permit taken out just to be purchased and then registered. So the cops would know exactly what I have, no need to ask.
Having said that, honestly, I would not let them in the house. But knowing what I have, for all I know, they may already have the warrent in hand.
No clue what I would do, but I doubt I would go along with it “willingly”
I believe that this video shows the California LEOs (in New Orleans) confiscating a weapon and injuring an elderly woman in the process. I am unable to view YouTube videos at work; let me know if it’s the wrong one.
She would have been well within her constitutional rights to shoot those cops right then and there. That is what I would’ve done and will do if anyone comes to try and take away my rights.
That video made me so angry, my blood is on fire; that lil’ ol lady SHOULD have a gun in that type of situation, not to mention it is her RIGHT in the frist place!
How could a supposed officer of the law just be okay with the stripping of rights like this? It boggles my mind, that the people charged with our public safety are so readily able to turn a blind eye to the supreme law of the land. To take an oath and go against it is cowardly and plain evil.
A local Police stations oath here in CO:
On my honor,
I will never betray my badge,
my integrity, my character,
or the public trust.
I will always have
the courage to hold myself
and others accountable for our actions.
I will always uphold the constitution
my community and the agency I serve.
I would think taking an oath is a big deal, and one would adhere to its meaning/definitions. Not to mention the constitution should be upheld at all times no matter what.
You don’t need tractor trailers to haul them off. Open field and some gas or set them on the curb in front of the house that they were confiscated in and run them over with a truck:sad:
Gun confiscation would for me constitute a bug out situation. Just to avoid a confrontation:sad:
In the aftermath of the breakdown of the Government in New Orleans, the California state assembly passed AB 1645 and Governor Schwarzenegger signed it into law…
AB 1645 (Stats. 2007, ch. 715) (La Malfa)
Establishes that the Governor’s authority to invoke various powers in the event of an emergency DO NOT include the power to order the seizure or confiscation of firearms or ammunition from any individual who lawfully possesses the firearm or ammunition. (Gov. Code, § 8571.5)
“The actions of the New Orleans police have inspired 13 states … to enact laws to keep state and local officials from taking guns during a state of emergency…”
“Missouri [enacted] an emergency weapons bill … to become the 13th state with such a law on the books, joining Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.”
All of these emergency weapons bill laws are unnecessary. Of course state and local officials don’t have the power to confiscate and seize your weapons. You see, they enacted this law a few years back that states “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Basically these laws are saying that they are going to obey an amendment of the bill of rights. Well how nice of them.