Aug. 29, 2005, was a day no American will ever forget. When Hurricane Katrina, one of the five-strongest storms ever to build in the Atlantic Basin, slammed into the city of New Orleans, her towering storm surge tested the limits of the flood walls and levees protecting one of America's largest cities. The surge would find them lacking. As the city filled and drowned, it descended into mass hysteria and anarchy, and within hours became a place that would reveal to Americans whether their Constitution had any more value than the frayed, fragile, brown parchment on which it is written. As looters and thugs took over, the city's leaders turned their crosshairs and iron sights toward the lawful, gun-toting citizens who sought nothing more than to defend themselves from the marauding hordes. In what proved to be the greatest real-life test of the Second Amendment in American history, America failed miserably. The Great New Orleans Gun Grab tells the story of New Orleans residents who legally defied mandatory evacuation orders to protect their property, and who were subsequently beaten, harassed and robbed of their guns by the very civil authority that was funded and charged to protect them.
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"Hutchinson and Masson have nailed it. 'The Great New Orleans Gun Grab' is a blistering indictment of everything that went wrong before, during and especially after the hurricane. It's all here, the incompetence, misconduct and abuse of authority; everything that should make American citizens shudder." --Dave Workman
"An infuriating, fascinating and terrifying tale of good citizens victimized by criminal gangs and a criminal local government. After you read this book, you will know the deadly danger of believing, 'It can't happen here.'" --David B. Kopel
"A compelling story that needs to be told so Americans never forget. This book exposes the abuse of authority and the order to go door to door, confiscating firearms from law-abiding citizens at a time when they needed them most. ... A human drama of what will happen if we let it." --Ginny Simone
"An infuriating, fascinating and terrifying tale of good citizens victimized by criminal gangs and a criminal local government. After you read this book, you will know the deadly danger of believing, 'It can't happen here.'" --David B. Kopel
"A compelling story that needs to be told so Americans never forget. This book exposes the abuse of authority and the order to go door to door, confiscating firearms from law-abiding citizens at a time when they needed them most. ... A human drama of what will happen if we let it." --Ginny Simone
About the Author
Gordon Hutchinson graduated from Louisiana State University, and served as an airborne infantry officer with the 82nd Airborne Division during the Vietnam era. A firearms writer and shooting sports columnist for decades, he also worked as a law-enforcement officer. Hutchinson lives on a farm outside Baton Rouge with his wife Mary and four horses. His first book, The Quest and the Quarry, was chosen as a book of the year by the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association.
A graduate of Loyola University, Todd Masson is a multiple award-winning writer and editor of Louisiana Sportsman, Mississippi Sportsman, North Carolina Sportsman and South Carolina Sportsman magazines. He is also a radio show host, and is the author of "Specks: Louisiana s top 10 trout destinations, and exactly how to fish them year-round." Masson is a native of Metairie, La., where he currently resides.
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This book details the ILLEGAL theft and seizure of firearms from law abiding citizens of the New Orleans area after Katrina, as ordered by Ray Nagin and Eddie Compass.
If you think the Second Amendment protects you, think again! When people like Nagin are in charge it is just a scrap of paper. Thank God the federal courts stepped in. As a member of law enforcement, I am shocked and ashamed by what happened. Everyone should read this book to see how far an out of control government can go---which is the very reason the Founders wrote the Second Amendment. I have praise fro the writers for bringing this to our attention. Joseph S. Johnston Mobile, Alabama
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It is odd that many gun owners still refuse to believe the reality of the U.S. Constitution being raped on the streets of New Orleans and the surrounding areas in the days after hurricane Katrina. If you have a gun owner friend in denial, this book is a most illuminating Christmas gift. Many gun owners say "It could never happen here." Guess what.......It did. This book dispels a lot of the Rambo vote from the rooftops chest beating, and places the reader directly into the reality of confiscations.
If you are a gun owner, intrested in preserving the U.S. Constitution as written, or even just ambivalent, you must read this book. You will be ambivalent no more.
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This book is an important documentation of the atrocities committed by lawless looters and lawless lawmen in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. It is a real reminder of the fragility of civilized society and evidence of the tenuousness of our civil liberties. It is a damning testimony against the authorities in New Orleans and a warning to all Americans of the reality of the possibility of a speedy descent into anarchy right here in the good ol' US of A.
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New Orleans, Deseent Into Anarchy, Descent Into Anarchy, French Quarter, Hurricane Katrina, Algiers Point, Audubon Place, Street Stories, Charles Avenue, Baton Rouge, National Guard, The Island, Lake Pontchartrain, United States, Esplanade Avenue, Barracks Street, Magazine Street, Airborne Division, Father Red, Johnny White, Buell Teel, Mississippi River, North Roman Street, Lake Borgne, Venetian Isles Browse Sample Pages:
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