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Contact NRA Now if You or Someone You Know Had Firearm Confiscated in New Orleans

Link: Gun seized after Katrina? NRA wants you - Yahoo! News.

NEW ORLEANS - The National Rifle Association has hired private investigators to find hundreds of people whose firearms were seized by city police in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, according to court papers filed this week.  The NRA is trying to locate gun owners for a federal lawsuit that the lobbying group filed against Mayor Ray Nagin and Police Superintendent Warren Riley over the city's seizure of firearms after the Aug. 29, 2005, hurricane. In the lawsuit, the NRA and the Second Amendment Foundation claim the city violated gun owners' constitutional right to bear arms and left them "at the mercy of roving gangs, home invaders, and other criminals" after Katrina.

Emergency Powers Bill Heads to Schwarzenegger

Remember New Orleans?  NEVER AGAIN shall we allow mass gun confiscation!  On Wednesday, September 5, the California Senate passed Assembly Bill 1645 by a vote of 21-16. The bill now heads to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) for his consideration. AB1645, sponsored by Assemblyman Doug La Malfa (R-2), will protect law-abiding gun owners during a declared state of emergency from the seizure or confiscation of any lawfully carried or possessed firearm or ammunition.

Link: NRA-ILA :: Legislation.

Shocking Video of Mass Gun Confiscation in New Orleans...Door-to-Door...M-16's POINTED IN

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Mass confiscation of guns in US, door-to-door, with M-16's actually pointed in at the doors of law-abiding Americans; soldiers occupy church; soldier uncomfortable about having to shoot Americans:

More info:
www.givethemback.com (NRA)
Gun Confiscation in New Orleans (GOA)

Another Video:
Elderly Lady Body-Slammed by Gun-Grabbing California Highway Patrol Officers Assisting in New Orleans

Where have many thousands of private citizens trained at arms, alongside America's finest military & law enforcement personnel? www.frontsight.com

Where do private citizens and law enforcement sportingly oppose each other in defensive shooting competition? Front Sight Challenge Reality TV series

Can small arms be a check on government?

Link: The Volokh Conspiracy - James Madison, Gun Nut:#171608.  Excerpt from an anonymous comment on Volokh Conspiracy, responding to a contention that small arms could not effectively check the power of a better-armed government:

Small arms such as a single-shot deringer, a semi-automatic pistol, .22 revolver, a bolt action rifle, a modern military type rifle, heck, couldn't even a simple knife be considered a potential check on government, or at least on those who govern? Looking at history it would appear to me that small arms are quite capable of being a “check” on those who govern.

New NRA Website on the Mass Confiscation of Guns in New Orleans

Link: Give Them Back.com.

(Via Arms and the Law.)  Looks like a good site, but the video links did not work very well when I tried them today and the video is more abbreviated than that linked at GOA's site on this subject.

Remember New Orleans!!!!!!! (Bush signs bill banning repeat of New Orleans confiscation)

World Examiner has some catching up to do - a lot happened this week.  As Cam Edwards reported, both on NRAnews and on his blog, President Bush signed the Disaster Recovery Personal Protection bill into law.  This is supposed to prevent a repeat of New Orleans-type gun confiscation, although I wonder what exceptions might be in the bill, and what this piece of paper will mean if teachers and parents fail to  pass on to future generations the great American tradition of firearms ownership and carry.

For shocking video of mass gun confiscation on US soil, see GOA's page on Gun Confiscation in New Orleans.