Victory for Second Amendment Rights

As you will recall, the Second Amendment Foundation and National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit against Ray Nagin, the racist mayor of New Orleans, and police superintendant Riley for the illegal seizure of guns from law-abiding citizens during the days following the devastation of hurricane Katrina. Now the judge in the case has found Nagin and Riley in contempt of court:

BELLEVUE, WA – A United States District Judge in New Orleans has granted a motion to hold Mayor C. Ray Nagin and Police Superintendent Warren Riley in contempt for failure to provide initial disclosures and answers to discovery in a lawsuit filed by the Second Amendment Foundation.
Judge Carl J. Barbier issued a blistering rebuke to New Orleans’ defense counsel for conduct that is “wholly unprofessional” and warned that it “shall not be condoned.” Judge Barbier ordered defense counsel to reimburse SAF’s attorney $1,365. SAF is joined in the lawsuit by the National Rifle Association.

What is even worse is the manner in which the guns were seized by the police:

“They seem to forget that we went to court over a serious civil rights violation,” Gottlieb continued. “In the days following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans dispatched police officers and National Guard troopers to confiscate firearms. In many cases, citizens were disarmed at gunpoint, without warrant and without probable cause. Nagin and Riley, and every other official in New Orleans who was part of this outrage, need to understand that the Constitution may not be suspended in New Orleans or anywhere else by a natural disaster, or on somebody’s whim.

Beware, there are many people out there who would take your rights away in a heartbeat. Nagin and Riley are two of them.