NEW ORLEANS GUN CONFISCATION ILLEGAL: Dave Kopel has done some legal research and concludes:

I’ll have an article on the New Orleans gun confiscation on Reason.com. But there’s one part of the story that’s too important to wait: the confiscation is plainly illegal. . . .

The particular Louisiana statute which allows emergency controls on firearms also clearly disallows the complete prohibition being imposed by the New Orleans chief of police.

I hope that some civil rights organization — the NRA, say — will help the injured parties bring suit.