Groups Call Arms Seizures 'Arbitrary' ; New Orleans Action Slammed

The Washington Times › September 23, 2005

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Two national gun rights groups yesterday joined individual Louisiana gun owners in a federal lawsuit to stop authorities from confiscating firearms from private citizens in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, seeking a temporary restraining order to halt the seizures of guns from law-abiding citizens. They described the confiscations as "arbitrary," "without warrant or probable cause" and thus "illegal."

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Groups Call Arms Seizures 'Arbitrary' ; New Orleans Action Slammed

New Orleans Police Superintendent P. Edwin Compass III "completely overstepped his bounds ... when he announced two w...

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