NRA Sues Mayor Ray Nagin
03.02.06We all remember the Chocolate City Mayor, right? And how many of you saw the police slamming that aged grandmother into a wall, breaking her arm and confiscating her shotgun, illegally?
Thanks to Ray Nagin, that poor old woman didn’t need to defend her self against the rapists, and murders plundering a post flood New Orleans… she needed to defend herself from the ones who swore to defend her. This Ray Nagin creep needs to go.
Fairfax, VA-The National Rifle Association (NRA ) has filed a motion for contempt against the City of New Orleans, the mayor and the acting chief of police for failure to comply with a temporary restraining order, handed down September 12, 2005, ordering an end to all illegal gun confiscations.
“With looters, rapists and other thugs running rampant in New Orleans, Ray Nagin issued an order to disarm all law-abiding citizens,” declared Wayne LaPierre, NRA executive vice president. “With no law enforcement and 911 available, he left the victims vulnerable by stripping away their only means of defending themselves and their loved ones. Now Ray Nagin thinks he’s above the law, and that’s just wrong.”
Attorneys for NRA have exhausted all efforts to cooperate with the defendants, Mayor Nagin and Chief Riley, who repeatedly ignored the court’s permanent restraining order against their illegal gun confiscations.
“Ray Nagin is a colossal disappointment,” said Chris W. Cox, NRA chief lobbyist. “During a federally declared emergency, he abused his power and abandoned the very people he was sworn to protect. He took away the victims’ freedom and their basic means of self-defense during an ill-fated and perilous time.”
The motion also includes an order that all seized firearms must be returned to their rightful owners.
man, that’s intense. The question is, do you think the NRA will win. Im not sure on that one. Just cuz of all the crazy liberals in DC
# March 2nd, 2006 at 11:25 amThey definently have a better case than Nagin, since their case relies on something called the Constitution and how it says the right of the citizens to bear arms shall not be infringed.
# March 2nd, 2006 at 1:46 pmThe Mayor’s orders violate both the US Constitution and the State of Louisiana’s Constitution. The NRA will win, but since Mayor Nagin hasn’t shown a track record of following plans (we all remember that oil slick around the flooded buses that were supposed to have moved people out days before the hurricane), I don’t expect to see a lot of action until someone with more authority comes in and forces it.
# March 2nd, 2006 at 7:11 pm[...] For those who remember back during Katrina, the City of New Orleans went around confiscating guns from everybody (read: law-abiding citizens who needed means of self defense from roaming thugs). So the NRA took em to court. God bless the NRA. This week, in a landmark victory for NRA and law-abiding gun owners, Judge Carl J. Barbier of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana denied the City of New Orleans’ motion to dismiss NRA’s lawsuit against the city. Further, Judge Barbier held that the Second Amendment does apply to law-abiding residents in the State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans. Incredibly, the City of New Orleans persisted in desperately clinging to its anti-gun agenda by contemptuously arguing just the opposite–that the Second Amendment does not apply to residents in the State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans. [...]
# August 21st, 2006 at 11:28 am