Nagin wants his gun rights restored.

[nolaradio]

Convicted ex-New Orleans mayor has done his time. Now, can he get the right to carry a gun?

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who was convicted on federal bribery, money laundering and other corruption charges in 2014, has completed his 10-year sentence and is asking a federal judge to restore his rights to carry a gun and vote.​

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Convicted ex-New Orleans mayor has done his time. Now, can he get the right to carry a gun?

A former mayor of New Orleans who was convicted on federal corruption charges wants the right to carry a gun, but the path to that is complicated.

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[DBMJR1]

In theory he could get his firearm rights restored after ten years post completion of all terms of his sentencing.


However:

It requires AFT restoring those rights, and that appeals process has NEVER been funded by congress, therefore it has never happened, in practice.

 

[machinedrummer]

He should be allowed to join the NOPD and put him on patrol in the worse district. I guess that would be any district but…anyway that should be his only way.

 

[Bigchillin83]

Reap what you sow

 

[323MAR]

He should be allowed to join the NOPD and put him on patrol in the worse district. I guess that would be any district but…anyway that should be his only way.

On a serious note, IF he can get a Presidential Pardon, he would easily be able to do the part-time Reserve academy on Tuesday and Thursday nights, and take 3 weeks off from work and go through the NOPD firearms class and the Tactical Shotgun portion(fun.)
He might be too much of wuss for it though. He'd get his feelings hurt and might not be able to clear all his steel targets after running a lap around the parking lot. God that was fun!(Good ole days!)

 

[V.Taltos]

With the many ways people can be charged with felonies now days there really should be an easy way to restore peoples illegally removed rights to keep and bear arms.

 

[Abby Normal]

Ray ray just wants to protect his self in his Chocolate City.

 

[Magdump]

Ol’ chocolate city wants to carry a gun… yeah why not.

 

[dangerousdon]

So I don't post here often but I thought this might be a worthy topic to discuss. At one point in my life I would have said, "if you are a felon, there are no Second Amendment Rights for you." Today I am not so sure. I have met many people in my life that made mistakes when they were younger and had low level felonies. They did their time, paid their restitution, and are now good, hard working contributing citizens. I am definitely for these people having their rights restored. Bit where do you stop that line? I can honestly say that any kind of violent crime, crimes in which you used a firearm to commit, domestic crimes, and sex crimes, these people should never have their 2A rights restored among other things. But for white collar crimes and others along these lines, yeah, maybe there should be a path to restore their rights. In the situation of Mr. Nagin...while I am not a fan of his...I am not sure his crimes should prohibit him from owning a firearm forever. I guess even he needs a path forward.

 

[Danny Ross]

There is no "except for" in the 2d Amendment.

You can bet that General Jackson was glad to have the pirate Jean Lafitte and his Baratarians on his side at the Battle of New Orleans.