New Book--Great New Orleans Gun Grab

[Shootist1]

Greetings Riflemen...about the only thing I like better than shooting handguns is sitting down on my range and sighting in three or four rifles!

I wanted to get in this popular forum and let you know our book is finally out.

The first copies of the "The Great New Orleans Gun Grab" hit the publisher's office yesterday, and media copies started going in the mail today to writers and luminaries in the NRA, SAF, GOA, etc. Yes, one went out today to Tom Gresham who was kind enough to write a most complimentary "blurb" for us. The book should be in bookstores and on Amazon in about two weeks.

Todd Masson, my co-author, and I spent over a year in New Orleans running down leads, conducting interviews, and taking photos of folks who were victims of the thuggish behavior and Gestapo tactics of the police agencies who flooded into New Orleans to "help" NOPD in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

If you are interested in seeing the website, go to:

www.neworleansgungrab.com.

The book details the true stories of Patty Konie, Ashton O'Dwyer, Buell Teel, and other folks who were brutally assaulted, harassed, beaten, and in some cases physically evacuated by force. If you were a gunowner, you were a target. Instead of trying to stop the thugs and looters, the reigning authorities tried to make everyone leave, and one way to insure that was to remove their means of self-defense. They did this at gunpoint, frequently--practically all the time--refusing to give their names or badge numbers, or allowing the citizens to write down the serial numbers of the fireams they were stealing at gunpoint. Most of the thousand of guns they took have disappeared, never to be seen again. Much of the junk ended up in the lake and canals. The good stuff ended up in private collections.

It is a story that has been ignored by the national media, and we have documented it. If you read it, you will be amazed--and outraged. Thanks for the opportunity to get the word out on this popular forum.

Good shooting. I'll be on the range tomorrow testing a new Merkel KR-1 in .270 WSM. It is a beautiful, expensive piece, and kicks like the Hammer of Thor!

Gordon Hutchinson--Co-Author "The Great New Orleans Gun Grab"

 

[Justin]

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[cyclist]

Much of the junk ended up in the lake and canals. The good stuff ended up in private collections.

I trust there is proof to back up this statement, right?

Has anyone done any magnet fishing in the lakes and canals down there?

 

[Guntalk]

Thanks, Justin!

 

[buzz_knox]

I trust there is proof to back up this statement, right?

There's probably no direct evidence, but it's a safe bet. I'm sure that like the one New Orleans officer who is facing charges for having driven a "commandeered for official use" vehicle for over a year, others decided to "safeguard" confiscated firearms.

It's been known to happen in non-disasters, so why not in this situation?

 

[cyclist]

Probably a good reason to have a documented offsite inventory of what one owns "just in case". I greatly dislike abuse of authority as it greatly undermines those in authority who don't abuse their authority. Sad situation all around.

I checked and the book is also on amazon.com now so I could order a copy from the local Border's store. Not to take business away from the linked link, but it's good when stuff like this gets into the local stores and not just through localized web sites that the general public might never see. With New Orleans in the title it could grab people's attention.

 

[Guntalk]

Here's a question for THR folks. Would you ever buy a copy of a book like this and donate it to the local library, just to make sure it is available to the public?

 

[xd9fan]

Unless cops and chiefs start going to jail for violating civil rights......even against the constitution.....nothing will change.
They just simply dont fear any real blowback.

 

[swingpress]

Here's a question for THR folks. Would you ever buy a copy of a book like this and donate it to the local library, just to make sure it is available to the public?

My wife donated several boxes of books to the local library. Would you like to know what they did with them?

Discarded them! Can you believe it? I can assure you that this is not a well-stocked library either!

I would donate books that I value out of my collection if I thought they would be put to good use.

 

[swingpress]

Now that I'm all fired up, I just sent a letter off to the county librarian. Maybe some good will come of this yet. It's been nagging at me for a while.

 

[gunsmith]

I saw a video during the confiscation

on one of the cable news outlets, of the cops confiscating
guns from peaceful citizens, one in particular really riled me.
They took a bunch of guns from this guy who was at his own home
doing absolutely nothing illegal, he wasn't even told to evacuate.

I have not been able to find it again

The famous vid is of the old lady who didn't want to evac and the cops forcibly disarmed her, the vid I saw was a lot more powerful, a peaceful citizen
standing in front of his house while the cops looted it of guns.
Vile & disgusting acts.

 

[Zedicus]

My question about the whole NOLA Gun Grab insanity is how many resisted and ended up corpses for it.

A good friend of mine spent almost a year in NOLA doing voluntary rebuilding work (homes and churches only).

About all he has told me about it when he got back was "I have seen a preview of what will likely happen to the rest of the US in the very near future, and it isn't pretty"

He wasn't very pro-gun before (did own a Bolt action & a revolver that he never used) now he's 100% pro-gun and de-rusting his shooting skills as well as acquiring a few more guns.

for a guy to change like that, he's obviously seen something(s) that shook him to the core.

 

[Flame Red]

I bet Glenn Beck would love to talk about this on his show. He has people on the 'book circuit' all the time.

 

[Shootist1]

I saw a video during the confiscation
on one of the cable news outlets, of the cops confiscating
guns from peaceful citizens, one in particular really riled me.
They took a bunch of guns from this guy who was at his own home
doing absolutely nothing illegal, he wasn't even told to evacuate.
I have not been able to find it again.

Gunsmith...

Look at these addresses on the web:

www.gunowners.org/abcnews.mpg

www.gunowners.org/neworleans.ram

Or go to YouTube and type in key words NRA/New Orleans/Katrina/Guns

Many folks uploaded these onto YouTube. We have the complete story of Patty Konie in the book, along with many others who were brutalized by the authorities--I use the generic term, because far more police agencies than just NOPD participated in these outrages. You need only read the interviews with these people to realize just what sort of hell they were forced to suffer.

Thanks...

Gordon Hutchinson, Author
The Great New Orleans Gun Grab

(and thanks to Tom Gresham and Justin for re-initiating this string.)

 

[buzz_knox]

They took a bunch of guns from this guy who was at his own home
doing absolutely nothing illegal, he wasn't even told to evacuate.

He didn't have to be told. Once he was disarmed, he was at the mercy of anyone who came along. So, I bet he left not long after.

I wonder how many homes were looted (and by whom) after the police took away the owners' means of protection and the owners had to leave.

 

[Aguila Blanca]

Here's a question for THR folks. Would you ever buy a copy of a book like this and donate it to the local library, just to make sure it is available to the public?

Nope.

If I were to donate a copy of this book to my public library, it would never make it onto the shelves, and I doubt it would make it into their sale bin of "surplus" books.

 

[Rachen]

I Will!!!

Here's a question for THR folks. Would you ever buy a copy of a book like this and donate it to the local library, just to make sure it is available to the public?

I will definitely, and I shall order two copies for my library, just in case it runs out or someone puts it on hold. Doing things like that makes me proud, since I am doing it right in front of Bloomberg and his corrupt administration. Think about it, encouraging awareness for gun rights in the middle of a cloud of gun grabbing liberals.........it's like Ba Lu Jun (8th Route Army) operatives fighting in the mountains deep in Japanese-held Manchuria in 1939.

 

[Rogue6]

I was there and only saw safeguarding - not gun grabs

I was a National Guard officer in New Orleans (in the Marigny and later up by the Lake at Delgado Community College). As I remember, the guidance was that you couldn't take anyone's firearms unless it was from someone who was being taken into custody for committing some crime or unless you found some that were unsecured (e.g., in a home that had been broken into with the owners gone), in which case you had to leave a note for the owner, tag it, inventory it, and turn it over to the ATF or the state equivalent with all relevant information so that the owner could recover them. I don't know what the NOPD were doing in regards to that issue.

 

[Titan6]

I'll tell you what. I will buy an extra copy and lend it out to the guys. Everyone reads about a book a week so I am certain a few will read it.

 

[.44walkersabot]

I just left New Orleans for Huntsville about 2 weeks ago, maybe 3. I had come down from Medicine Bow to help a friend of mine after Katrina. I was down there close to 3 years straight, or 2 years or however long it's been. I got down there about a month after it hit. Lots of good people had their firearms taken and have never gotten them back. Like I know one fine old gentleman who had to surrender a Colt Woodsman to a police officer IN HIS OWN HOME. He wasn't firing the piece or anything. The officer told him he had to turn it in temporarily to make sure looters didn't break in and take it. Being a decent law abiding old man, he went into the next room and got the piece and turned it over to the officer. He has never got the gun back. The police officer said it must have gotten misplaced or lost..Yeah, right!!I shoot blackpowder but anyone who has ever messed around with firearms know's ABOUT the Woodsman even if they'vd never seen one...I guess (it's just my thoughts) that probably the next best thing would be a Ruger MK-2, for people who are off into those types of firearms. Of course I realize the Mk-2 is very common and the Woodsman is getting sort of scarce and much sought after, and probably very expensive if you could even find someone willing to part with one. I didn't get down there until about a month after the storm, but I sure know a lot of people got screwed over big time concerning their firearms. I'm sure that National Guard Officer is honorable (most military officers are by and large) and I'm sure his men followed orders, but I KNOW that a lot of police officers and federal agents were stealing their asses off, and going into decent citizens homes and taking, (I said TAKING) good people's firearms, and I know of a few cases where some decent citizens got broken in on, looted, sometimes hurt, and even raped because federal lawmen and police officers had left them defenseless. Myself and several more people I know, and know of, (and none of us are paranoid or stupid) think this (Katrina and the aftermath in New Orleans) was used as a 'trial run" by our government...What I have written I have written and I'm not backing up on one word of it..

 

[Titan6]

It just occured to me.

You really need to be buying copies and sending them to Iraq for the soldiers to read. They will get read and you cetainly have the right target audience.