Greetings...I'm a brand new member, introduced to this site by Tom Gresham, an old friend.
I'm a shooting sports writer with a gun column in four major southern outdoor magazines, and live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
I'm on here because Tom posted the website of my new book (written with co-author Todd Masson, Executive Editor of Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Mississippi Sportsman magazines) on one of the strings that was talking about New Orleans, and I thought I would offer some information on the book.
The site is www.neworleansgungrab.com.
The book details the true stories of Patty Konie, Ashton O'Dwyer, and a number of other folks who were brutalized, harassed, and had their guns stolen by the civil authorities in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
We conducted many dozens of interviews for over a year with survivors of that time to get the true story of what happened in New Orleans, and why.
We were driven to do this because it was a story that cried out to be told, and it was ignored by the major media.
Not only will you find what happened to Ms. Konie, and O'Dwyer, you will learn of people who fought gun battles with looters, and one group that shot and killed one.
In addition, the book looks at what happened in New Orleans, and explains what brought on the Gestapo and thug-like tactics of the city, state, and federal law enforcement agencies down there during that time.
We also describe in the final chapter the court battle to get into the storage facility where NOPD had 1,000 guns stored that had been confiscated in the aftermath of Katrina. It took over a year of battles in the federal courts before New Orleans finally acquiesced and allowed access to the guns. I led the team of experts that assisted Baton Rouge attorney Dan Holliday, the NRA/SAF attorney on the ground here who has fought this battle for so long.
On April 18, 2007, we finally gained access and began inventorying the guns with the aim of finding as many owners as possible and reuniting them with their personal firearms. Unfortunately, after a year of misuse and neglect, most are good for the junk pile, and nothing else. This is all detailed in the final chapter of the book, "The Second Battle of New Orleans."
I also wrote of this in the August issue of America's First Freedom, the NRA magazine on firearms politics that goes out to approximatly 1,000,000 subscribers. The link to that article is:
http://www.nrapublications.org/first...Neworleans.asp
Sorry to bend everyone's ear so long, but I thought the folks who read this forum (and it is definitely one of the most thoughtful gun forums I have seen) would be interested in all this.
Again, the website is: www.neworleansgungrab.com
Thanks for the opportunity to reach out to the people I really like most, the gun crowd!
I'm a shooting sports writer with a gun column in four major southern outdoor magazines, and live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
I'm on here because Tom posted the website of my new book (written with co-author Todd Masson, Executive Editor of Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Mississippi Sportsman magazines) on one of the strings that was talking about New Orleans, and I thought I would offer some information on the book.
The site is www.neworleansgungrab.com.
The book details the true stories of Patty Konie, Ashton O'Dwyer, and a number of other folks who were brutalized, harassed, and had their guns stolen by the civil authorities in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
We conducted many dozens of interviews for over a year with survivors of that time to get the true story of what happened in New Orleans, and why.
We were driven to do this because it was a story that cried out to be told, and it was ignored by the major media.
Not only will you find what happened to Ms. Konie, and O'Dwyer, you will learn of people who fought gun battles with looters, and one group that shot and killed one.
In addition, the book looks at what happened in New Orleans, and explains what brought on the Gestapo and thug-like tactics of the city, state, and federal law enforcement agencies down there during that time.
We also describe in the final chapter the court battle to get into the storage facility where NOPD had 1,000 guns stored that had been confiscated in the aftermath of Katrina. It took over a year of battles in the federal courts before New Orleans finally acquiesced and allowed access to the guns. I led the team of experts that assisted Baton Rouge attorney Dan Holliday, the NRA/SAF attorney on the ground here who has fought this battle for so long.
On April 18, 2007, we finally gained access and began inventorying the guns with the aim of finding as many owners as possible and reuniting them with their personal firearms. Unfortunately, after a year of misuse and neglect, most are good for the junk pile, and nothing else. This is all detailed in the final chapter of the book, "The Second Battle of New Orleans."
I also wrote of this in the August issue of America's First Freedom, the NRA magazine on firearms politics that goes out to approximatly 1,000,000 subscribers. The link to that article is:
http://www.nrapublications.org/first...Neworleans.asp
Sorry to bend everyone's ear so long, but I thought the folks who read this forum (and it is definitely one of the most thoughtful gun forums I have seen) would be interested in all this.
Again, the website is: www.neworleansgungrab.com
Thanks for the opportunity to reach out to the people I really like most, the gun crowd!
