Speaking on Tucker Carlson’s show on Thursday night, Mr. Bishop expressed bewilderment by the language found in the executive order relative to the seizure of firearms. And he appeared to not understand the governor’s reasoning behind the continued state of emergency declarations.
“Ironically enough after Katrina hit in New Orleans, the mayor tried to do that same kind of executive order, eventually the courts ruled that that was blatantly unconstitutional,” Mr. Bishop said. “So this is the question and the governor has said different things about it. He did issue the order that would have allowed them to confiscate weapons and ammunition and it says also other property and the like — I don’t know how you define that one. But he has also said he never intended to do it; that this is merely a way of getting his National Guard to get ammunition and guns without using the normal procurement system, I don’t know what that means.”
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