Currently writing a paper for a law class dealing with the New Orleans Gun consfiscations.  The first 5-7 pages are due tommorow so those will be posted soon.  Here's the outline so far:

Liberty and its Existence in Cases of National Emergency
In my paper I will be exploring the legal issues surrounding the gun confiscations in New Orleans following the wake of Hurricane Katrina.  My paper will include an in- depth analysis of the order placed by the New Orleans government, as well as an exploration into the constitutionality of such confiscations.  This analysis will include going into detail of the mayor’s actions and the injunction passed by the federal district court in charge of the eastern district of Louisiana and the contempt of court case involving the major’s actions against this injunction.

Liberty and its Existence in Cases of National Emergency In my paper I will be exploring the legal issues surrounding the gun confiscations in New Orleans following the wake of Hurricane Katrina.  My paper will include an in- depth analysis of the order placed by the New Orleans government, as well as an exploration into the constitutionality of such confiscations.  This analysis will include going into detail of the mayor’s actions and the injunction passed by the federal district court in charge of the eastern district of Louisiana and the contempt of court case involving the major’s actions against this injunction. A. The Second Amendment – a history of interpretation 1. National Firearms Act (United States v. Miller) 2. Gun Control Act (1968) 3. Barrett v. United States 4. Lewis v. United States B. Facts of the Present Case 1. Mayor authorized seizures of weapons following Katrina 2. NRA brought suit in US district court 3. Injunction was passed down saying no more seizures and that weapons must be returned 4. Seizures continued 5. Contempt of Court C. Analysis of the Actions Made 1.   Issue – Government’s right to take weapons? 2.   Reasons for Injunction – analysis of both sides’ arguments 3.   Contempt of court hearing D.  Possible Aftereffects 1.   Strengthened resolve in the 2nd Amendment 2.   Possible Weakening of Miller v. United States E.  Conclusion and summary

sounds like an interesting read, where's the rest?

Jesus, how many pages do you have to write. That seems like a lot of background info to support your argument.

I'd like to read this once you have it done. Please post the finished text.

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sounds interesting.  i hope your prof is a flaming liberal and that this frosts his balls good

The outline looks like there's a shitload of background info, but in fact the section C or whatever where I'm doing the analysis is going to take up around eight pages or so...  Lots of stuff there.  

Anyone know the best way to post this thing on here?  I submitted the first five pages already as a rough draft for that part... as was required on the assignment.  The whole whopper is due a week from friday.

It's probably too long to just post the whole thing on here. You'll have to get it hosted somewhere as a Word document, or a plain text file. I think there's several free hosting services out there, or you can ask around on here and see if anyone will host it for you - several people here have their own web servers, and hosting a little text file is a lot easier then the large movies and picture collections we usually pass around.