The agreement calls for the city to post a notice on its Web site that explains how gun owners can claim their firearms.

Gun owners must sign an affidavit claiming ownership of a gun but don’t need to present written proof, such as a sales receipt or serial number. A background check also is required to certify that someone claiming a gun can legally possess a firearm.

The note apparently hasn’t been posted yet.  However, their site is here - in case you’re looking for your lost firearm.  The city says they have 552 firearms stored and available for people to claim.  The NRA said the number should be closer to 1200.  It’s unclear what happened to the others, or how the seized firearms were counted to begin with.

When pressed on the fact that its confiscation efforts left its own citizens completely defenseless, the City cited a rather odd legal fallacy that keeps popping up for some reason…

In their lawsuit, the gun lobbying groups accused the city of violating gun owners’ constitutional right to bear arms and leaving them “at the mercy of roving gangs, home invaders, and other criminals” after Katrina.

In response, the city argued that federal law doesn’t apply to the plaintiffs’ claims against city officials “because the right to keep and bear arms has never been recognized as a fundamental individual right.”

Anyway, it sure is a good thing that New Orleans was able to provide protection for its own citizens after the storm, and none of their police officers ran away.

The National Rifle Association should continue to press this case and insist on getting a court order that the City not arbitrarily impose martial law over certain aspects of the Constitution.

In case you’re curious, here is the music video…

Meehan appeared on CNN yesterday morning because of the controversy. He said that, “I believe 9/11 could have been prevented if we’d had a Republican president at the time.” Clearly he means if a Republican have been President during the 1990’s.

While he may be right on many points, this tasteless attempt at political expression should not be rewarded. Conservatives are better than this, and we should call for Meehan to pull down his billboards and not use the deaths of thousands at the World Trade Center to promote his lame music.

Florida Democrats have called the billboards a crass attempt at exploiting 9/11 for political and personal gain, and the Florida Republican Party issued a statement saying in party that “there are many ways to convey the importance of national security in this election without going to extremes.”

The song costs $5 to purchase from Meehan’s website. He’s also available for parties, meetings, and events.

This footage is a few years old, but I had not seen the ABC News clip until recently. Here we see oppression being put into practice on a local scale - surreal video of military troops patrolling American neighborhoods, and with the assistance of local law enforcement, running willy-nilly through houses, disarming people and trampling on multiple Constitutional rights.

Now follows another video from the NRA about some law-abiding people who got stepped on by their own government.