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Legal matters
Attended the Legal Affairs Committee meeting at the NRA Convention, and heard the following:
The General in Alaska who forbade his men to own arms at home has been transferred out.
NRA v. San Francisco lawsuit: the city has appealed.
New Orleans suit is ongoing. City and mayor are fighting, with very weak arguments, probably out of sheer desperation. Bottom line is they can't give back many seized guns, because no records were kept of who owned what, and many others were stolen by NOPD officers. Others may have vanished when NOPD sorta "issued them" to FEMA and other emergency responders, and told them that when they left the area they could just give them to the first police car they saw.
Comments
Do you have any links to the Alaska dismissal? It's the first I've heard of it.
Posted by: Thirdpower at April 12, 2007 10:41 AM
Word on the wa-ccw list is he got moved to Ft. Lewis:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/military/stryker/story/6453924p-5749429c.html
Posted by: Anthony at April 12, 2007 01:39 PM
It takes some huevos, but illegal orders shouldn't obeyed. And that pricks order to disarm at home and off base was illegal as I'll get out.
Posted by: RKV at April 12, 2007 06:18 PM
Was the transfer a promotion or a slap on the wrist?
THAT is the question.
Posted by: 30yearprof at April 12, 2007 07:17 PM
NOLAPD stole them.
At least this story of corruption and incompetence is believable.
Pathetic, but believable... in fact, inevitable for "the big easy".
I believe that a large cash payment is due each citizen who had their guns stolen under color of law.
What a pity the NOLA "leaders" will steal taxpayer money defrauded from the federal gov't to pay this.
Posted by: RSweeney at April 13, 2007 06:13 PM
I too agree that a hefty payment is due any citizen who had their firearms illegally confiscated. The problem lies in the fact that no records were kept. So hypothetically, anyone and everyone could say their wepons were taken, even people who aren't citizens of New Orleans could claim (albeit fraudulently) that while visiting, their weapons were siezed. It wouldn't take much very much of this to bankrupt the city. I think its wrong and it nauseates me to think of it but I don't see anyone getting compensated financially for the loss of their firearms. What should happen is the Mayor and Police Chief should go to jail along with any officer who might be proven to have been in possession of stolen property. Having lived there I can personally attest that New Orleans is corrupt. It always has been. (Though there are good cops there) there have always been more than a few police officers who were thugs, theives and drug dealers. Taking bribes, extortion, pimping, racketeering, and even knocking off other cops has been par for the course in the Crecent City. In a state with a history of corrupt Governors, (Huey P. Long, Edwin Edwards) this is not at all suprising, and reportedly not unique to this one city. Sad but true.
Posted by: Wadical at April 14, 2007 05:21 AM