Published on Friday, June 18, 2006 by Reuters
Senate Votes to Bar Emergency Gun Confiscation

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to prohibit the
confiscation of legally owned guns during an emergency like last
year's Hurricane Katrina, marking another victory for the gun lobby.

By a vote of 84-16 ...

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0714-06.htm

On Jan 19, 4:43 pm, plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://reason.com/archives/2005/09/10/defenseless-on-the-bayou
>
> On Jan 19, 4:41 pm, studio <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I can Google New York, Kansas City and New Orleans all day long and
> > not find what your talking about...
>
> > Should be no problem posting a link then to confirm what you say is
> > correct.
>
> > The only thing I found was about police breaking down doors to take
> > away guns that were illegally owned.
>
> > On Jan 19, 5:34 pm, plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > haven't seen any
> > > evidence police have knocked on doors to take anyone's guns away yet.
> > > ---
> > > open your eyes or google New York, Kansas City, or New Orleans
>
> > > sample:
> > > At the orders of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the New Orleans Police,
> > > the National Guard, the Oklahoma National Guard, and U.S. Marshals
> > > have begun breaking into homes at gunpoint, confiscating their
> > > lawfully-owned firearms, and evicting the residents. "No one is
> > > allowed to be armed. We're going to take all the guns," says P. Edwin
> > > Compass III, the superintendent of police.

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