Obviously you didn’t bother to read the linked article, remaining willfully ignorant.You’re both wrong about Katrina.
It was a rare aberration neither authorized nor sanctioned by any lawmaking body, no guns were retained by the City, and further seizures were prohibited by a Federal court.
The right to due process and the rule of law worked, ensuring that there won’t be another similar incident.
‘Ad hoc gun seizures are also unlikely to happen there, or anywhere else, again. On the heels of that DOJ investigation, the city’s police department made sweeping reforms. President Bush signed bipartisan legislation “to prohibit the confiscation of a firearm during an emergency or major disaster,” except temporarily “as a condition for entry into any mode of transportation used for rescue or evacuation.” And Compass, the NOPD superintendent who’d ordered the gun confiscation, is long gone. He resigned less than three weeks after issuing his fateful order.’
https://www.thetrace.org/2015/08/nra-hurricane-katrina-gun-confiscation/
Yet conservatives continue to propagate the Katrina lie – proving most on the right to be nothing but dishonest demagogues.
Mayor Ray Nagin was also complicit with the police chief in ordering the confiscation of guns. Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005 after which was the confiscation. The city did not reach an agreement to return the weapons until 2008. Not surprising, crime and murders skyrocketed.
The seizing of firearms was not the result of a sanctioned act of government, no elected representatives of government passed any such measure, law enforcement had no government authorization to seize firearms.
When challenged in Federal court the seizures were declared unlawful and subject to injunction; Federal legislation was enacted to prevent future occurrences.
You and others on the right who attempt to propagate the ‘Katrina’ lie succeed in only illustrating your dishonesty; references to ‘Katrina’ by conservatives fail as a slippery slope fallacy, nothing but meritless demagoguery.
Mayor Ray Nagin was, obviously, elected mayor of New Orleans. No one said there was not an injunction but guns were confiscated from innocent, law-abiding citizens. Mayor Ray Nagin proffered that he had an authority to confiscate the guns because of the emergency and disaster.
As you know, Mayor Ray Nagin is currently serving time in prison for fraud and bribery.
New Orleans Mayor Finally Admits Illegal Gun Confiscation, Settles With NRA
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2008
After a three-year legal battle over the unconstitutional confiscation of lawfully owned firearms during Hurricane Katrina, this week, the City of New Orleans agreed to settle a lawsuit initiated by NRA. A permanent injunction has been issued against the city, Mayor Ray Nagin, and current Police Chief Warren Riley. The Second Amendment Foundation assisted NRA in the legal battle against Mayor Ray Nagin and the City of New Orleans.
NRA-ILA | New Orleans Mayor Finally Admits Illegal Gun Confiscation, Settles With NRA
Scalise: NRA, New Orleans to settle suit over Katrina gun seizures
Oct 8, 2008
Washington, DC -- Congressman Steve Scalise made the following comment today regarding the National Rifle Association (NRA) and New Orleans agreement to settle a lawsuit over the seizure of firearms by police officers following Hurricane Katrina.
In the 2006 regular session of the Louisiana Legislature, Scalise passed the law (H.B. 760), backed by the NRA that prohibits the seizure and confiscation of firearms during an emergency or disaster.
“It is long past due that this issue gets resolved. Today's settlement sends a message across the nation that no city can take away our 2nd Amendment right to protect our families. The law is clear that no one has the right to take a firearm from a law-abiding citizen. I will continue fighting to defend our 2nd Amendment rights in Congress, and have co-sponsored several bills that protect these rights.”
Scalise: NRA, New Orleans to settle suit over Katrina gun seizures | Congressman Steve Scalise