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Are you kidding me? During the run-up to Hurricane Earl, North Carolina declared a State of Emergency; North Carolinians lost their Second Amendment Rights.

That's seriously screwed up, and wrong.

Let's see some attention drawn to this issue, and North Carolina's laws challenged, as were Louisiana's laws after Katrina.

Unfortunately, many states have "emergency powers" laws that give the government permission to suspend or limit gun sales, and to prohibit or restrict citizens from transporting or carrying firearms. In some states, authorities are authorized to seize guns outright from citizens who've committed no crime--and who would then be defenseless against disorder.

The movement to change these laws is gaining speed. Just two months after Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana legislature--with only one dissenting vote--adopted a resolution declaring "the policy of the state of Louisiana to protect and uphold the citizens' right to keep and bear arms in their residences, businesses, and means of transport, and on their persons," condemning the seizure of firearms from New Orleans citizens, and announcing it planned to amend Louisiana's emergency powers law "to rectify the denial of these rights."4 Since then, 21 additional states have joined Louisiana by passing laws to protect the rights of law-abiding gun owners by prohibiting the confiscation of firearms during a time of emergency.

North Carolina, there's another hurricane coming your way. Law-abiding gun owners will now assemble to challenge your wrong-head laws in court and in the voting booth.

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