RETREAT!
The police chief of New orleans has retreated from his statement that firearms would be siezed if another situation like Katrina happens.
Within two hours of an announcement that the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) was calling for a Justice Department investigation of New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley’s plan to confiscate guns again if a major storm hits the city this year, SAF learned that Riley has backed off.
The article does not give any quotes or other evidence of this retreat so I am waiting to declare this a smll win. The main problem is the police chief could easily change his mind the day of the storm.
June 7th, 2006 at 10:58 am
Now I know that NRA has a bad habit of leaving SAF out of releases when they are partnered, but this is a little frustrating, too. SAF is implying that their call for an investigation triggered the retreat. According to NRA News, they were already following up on word that he was backtracking before their release came out. While NRA (public affairs, not NRA News – very different divisions) should have shared more credit with SAF in the initial press, SAF shouldn’t be trying to claim credit for making him rethink his statements.