Louisiana Attorney General quashes New Orleans illegal gun-free zone

By Lee Williams

(Photo-illustration from licensed Shutterstock account.)by Lee WilliamsAfter meeting last week with Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, New Orleans officials quietly removed the 1,000-foot gun-free zone they had established illegally smack dab in the middle of the city’s popular French Quarter.“I had a productive meeting with NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick and District Attorney Jason Williams, and Councilwoman Helena Moreno on Thursday in which I shared my concerns. They are working on a solution that would comply with the law,” Murrill said in a short statement following the meeting.What Murrill told city officials is not exactly known. She is in Milwaukee this week attending the Republican National Convention and is unavailable for comment, according to her spokesman, Lester Duhé, who added that the Attorney General will always defend Louisianans’ Second Amendment rights.A story published last week revealed how city officials redesignated their Eighth District police station — which is located in the middle of the French Quarter — as a vocational technical school, so that everything within a 1,000-foot radius of the new “school” became a gun-free zone, including more than five blocks of Bourbon Street.Who will actually attend classes at the new “school” was not specified. New Orleans Police recruits are

Source: The Gun Writer