The New Orleans Controllers Really Took The Lessons Of Hurricane Katrina To Heart Concerning Gun Controls, Didn’t They?
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 8 months ago
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell (D) has joined Champaign, Illinois Mayor Deborah Frank Feinen in exploiting the Coronavirus crisis to ban the sale and transfer of firearms.
GPM reported earlier this week that Feinen had issued an executive order declaring a coronavirus emergency in the city she governs and which has not confirmed a single case of the virus. The ordinances, The New York Post reports, “let (Feinen) ban the sale of firearms and ammunition as well as booze.”
Feinen told WAND-TV:“So many of those powers, I have had from the beginning. All we have done is enumerate them and now the public is aware of them. So, I am the liquor commissioner. I can shut down bars yesterday, I could have shut them down two years ago. Nothing has changed with respect to that, it is just that we have laid it out, so people are aware of that. In respect to the other items that are listed in the attachment, they have been listed in the city code for 15 years.”
In a similar move, Cantrell announced she is “empowered, if necessary, to suspend or limit the sale of alcoholic beverages, firearms, explosives, and combustibles.”
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), however, is telling Cantrell, “We sued once, we’ll do it again.”
Yea, they really care about your jackass lawsuit, SAF. They’ll only be dissuaded from their tyrannical ways when free men disobey and/or cops get shot trying to enforce unconstitutional laws.
Ammunition will be rolled in with firearms and explosives. But I also have to comment that if you waited this late to buy firearms and ammunition, you waited too late.
What is wrong with that city anyway that they keep electing horrible people like this?
On March 18, 2020 at 12:03 am, Ron Milliken said:
Herschel
Daily reader here, but…
Remember 2012?
Federal Judge Malcom J. Howard found NC GS 14-288.7 unconstitutional in Bateman v. Perdue in 2012.
Also NC GS 14-288.1(10); 14-288.12(b); 14-288.13(b); 14-288.14(a); 14-288.15(d), which conferred similar powers to local governments were also found unconstitutional.
Basically same thing, governor declares a State Of Emergency, prohibits sale, transportation, possession of firearms and ammunition.
Insert “mayor” for “governor”.
The Legislature changed the law June 11, 2012.
Now the law (§ 166A-19.31. Power of municipalities and counties to enact ordinances to deal with states of emergency) says “…except that this subdivision does not authorize prohibitions or restrictions on lawfully possessed firearms or ammunition. …”
The lawsuit was pressed by SAF & Grass Roots NC.
Sometimes, the judicial system does work.
On March 18, 2020 at 5:30 am, PsychoUSMC said:
I’m sick and tired of reading this crap. Sometimes gun owners are as dishonest as the MSM lying about the coronavirus. They haven’t banned the sale of firearms or ammo. The city councils have issued orders allowing them to do such but they haven’t done it. Will they? Maybe. Have they? No. If they do is it right? No. Stop adding to the hype.
On March 18, 2020 at 7:54 am, John said:
The way these nutty women get elected in predominantly black cities like Chicago, Baltimore
and New Orleans is that there are small turnouts for elections but the large majority of those
who DO vote are black women who feed at the trough of socialism and want to stay there.
On March 18, 2020 at 10:35 am, scott s. said:
I happen to be on the Westbank across from NOLA helping my 94 year old father at the moment. I would say Cantrell is considered better than the typical NO mayor. Not sure how she compares to Mitch Landrieu (previous mayor). Kind of a stupid thing for her to say since the city was slapped down after Katrina. Contrary to the article there’s 176 corona cases in NO as of today and 4 deaths. They let Mardi Gras parades roll as sched a couple weeks ago, but finally today just about everything public is shut down (St Pats and local St Joseph alters). Last week they closed the schools for a month. (Note that since Katrina, NO public schools are charter schools.)
On March 18, 2020 at 1:20 pm, Roger J said:
So, if I lived in NOLA, what would stop me from driving to the next parish, loading up on ammo (assuming I could find it) and burying my purchases in my trunk underneath all those mounds of toilet paper I bought but really didn’t need? That is, assuming mini-Mao used her illegitimate dictatorial powers to suspend the US Constitution in her little fiefdom.
On March 19, 2020 at 1:16 am, sunny said:
@Scott s
The article was talking about Champaign Illinois not having any cases of coronavirus at the time the article was written. Not NOLA.
sunny
On March 19, 2020 at 2:26 pm, John Deaux said:
Scott S, I’ve spent most of my 61 years living an hour west of nola, the mayors and city council of the past 50 years have been equally inept and corrupt. I used to love hanging out in the city but wouldn’t go there now without an armed personnel carrier.
Roger J, absolutely nothing but truthfully most sane people don’t live in Orleans anyway.
On March 19, 2020 at 6:49 pm, penses said:
The only thing New Orleans had going for it since Katrina was tourism. The privious Mayor [Landreau?] removed Confederate Statues in the middle of the night with snipers on the roof tops to quell any opposition, eliminating a large source of income from “people with their hearts in the wrong place.” The spring breakers filled the streets a few days ago and they ran them off. The Trump clampdown should take care of any money making ability the city has left.
PS: The mayor of Baltimore has asked the city’s thugs to stand down and quit being crimminals…Carona. Good luck with that.
On March 22, 2020 at 9:07 am, John Deaux said:
The big sleazy had to have their mardi gras, no matter what, so lots of the stupidest people went and got their drunk on. Several million people packed together shoulder to shoulder and nut to butt for 2 weeks, what could go wrong. As posted before, it produces nothing but tourism, all the sane industries left long ago.