New Orleans Police to Return Seized Guns

[Rose Siding]

NEW ORLEANS -- Under pressure from the National Rifle Association, police this week began returning guns confiscated after Hurricane Katrina.

The police department is making the guns available three days a week. At the close of the second day Wednesday, police said only 17 of about 700 weapons had been returned.

Police and soldiers removed guns from houses after the storm flooded the city, and they confiscated guns from some evacuees.
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Percy Taplet, 73, said the National Guard and state police confiscated his shotgun when they arrived to tell him to leave his house. When he tried to get his gun back this week, police told him he would have to contact state police.

"I won't ever see that gun again, believe me," Taplet said. "It's gone like everything else in that storm."

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-katrina-confiscated-guns,0,3640687.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[Ezlivin]

1. But are keeping the bullets.

That'll reduce crime.

[bluestateguy]

2. Allowing people to reclaim their own property: how generous

Chief Wiggum has your gun right here.

[marbuc]

3. NOPD =

Not Our Problem, Dude.

[madeline_con]

4. "... only 17 of about 700 weapons had been returned ..."

Gee, I wonder where all the owners are? :think:

[gort]

5. Hey Republicans, was it Clinton who seized your guns?

No, it was Bush. Repeat it to yourself, George W. Bush seized guns from American citizens who were trying to protect their property.

It was a Republican idiot who doesn't give a shit about you, you stupid Republicans, who seized guns from American citizens.

Say his name, Republicans, say it!

George W. Bush seized the guns of God-fearing, tax-paying, American citizens.

I tell you this. George W. Bush can seize my shotgun when he pulls it from my cold, dead hands.

[jody]

7. I don't like Bush but the confiscation occurred under a Dem mayor. n/t

[bluestateguy]

8. Republicans don't care if guns are seized from black people

As most of N.O.'s population is black.

[gort]

9. self delete

eom

[saigon68]

12. The blacks might try to defend themselves

Like the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto


Peasants should not be armed -- A. Hitler

[pinniped]

13. Repukes have selective memories.

They only remember the antigun bills Clinton signed, not the two major ones Raygun and that other POS* #41 signed.

[jody]

6. Government officials who ordered confiscation should be prosecuted.

the Louisiana Constitution says "The right of each citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged, but this provision shall not prevent the passage of laws to prohibit the carrying of weapons concealed on the person."

Law-abiding citizens have a right to keep and bear arms for self defense and that's why the Louisiana Senate recently voted 39-0 for a bill that would prohibit police from confiscating firearms of law-abiding citizens in times of emergencies or disasters.

[file83]

10. The guns have probably all been implanted with RFID...

...would you want that gun back? :tinfoilhat:!!

[slackmaster]

11. About damn fucking time!

Asswipe Fascist GOP gun-grabbing PIGS!

:nuke: