My comment was in reference to your last sentence.
I didn't comment on your video, and under the circumstances I can see why the police didn't want to have to deal with armed civilians. Aside from the first video of the old lady (who had a gun in her hand when police came in), we don't know if what any of the circumstances were in any of the other cases. If what they were saying was all true, it was wrong.
They all got their guns back (I guess maybe the guy who had his broken didn't) but they were returned. Beyond that, Louisiana legislator Steve Scalise introduced Louisiana House Bill 760, which would prohibit confiscation of firearms in a state of emergency, unless the seizure is pursuant to the investigation of a crime, or if the seizure is necessary to prevent immediate harm to the officer or another individual. On June 8, 2006, HB 760 was signed into law.[84] 21 other states joined Louisiana in enacting similar laws. A federal law prohibiting seizure of lawfully held firearms during an emergency, the Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act of 2006, passed in the House with a vote of 322 to 99, and in the Senate by 84-16. The bill was signed into law by President Bush on October 9, 2006. So now there is a federal law against it happening again. Lighten up
You did ask when it had happend, so I gave an example. And keep in mind, there should be no law to prohibit what was already an illegal act. It's absurdly redundant. It would be like you being rounded up for peacefully speaking your mind, held under arrest for a duration, then released later. Then to "kis the boo boo" and make it "better" they pass a "speaking freely protection act" declaring that they cannot prohibit your free speech. By the way, in bad times such as that is *precisely* when firearms are needed by citizens most. To argue otherwise is like saying that you can have a fire extinguisher, but if a fire breaks out it will be immediately confiscated. After all, you aren't supposed to store them near heat sources, as heat can cause the case to rupture and the thing to explode. So we're going to quickly round them up in the name of public safety.
During Katrina, these confiscations were happening in the high-and-dry areas. The cops had abandoned law-enforcement duties in the really bad parts. Then the cops moved on - leaving the citizens to their fate, unarmed, as some mobs roamed out of the bad areas looking to loot those who were still dry. Fortunately NO didn't erupt in mass mob violence, it was mostly sickening despiration. However, in LA during the RK riots, police were completely overwhelmed and couldn't provide law enforcement for most, probably one of the reasons they didn't round up firearms there (they already had enough on their hands). As a result, those that had them were using them to great effect to defend their lives and property (most notably the Korean shop owners with shotguns and ARs). The recent London riots were even worse ... cops pretty much stayed in a steady retreat, leaving their citizens to their fate. So much so that citizen groups formed using whatever they could, which wasn't much, as the coppers ran for the hills in their riot gear, toting their plexi-shields, and waited for the rioting to burn out from relative safety. Which is the whole point ... when the S really, I mean REALLY hits the F, you cannot count on others for your protection. Remember that they too are human, and have self-preservation. When they lose force of numbers ... when the situation gets so out of hand that they can no longer affect relatively safe arrests ... when they worry in the back of their minds that their own families are home, without them, and could be facing their own storm ... well, human nature takes over. They often will abandon their posts completetely (as happened in NO in the flooded areas), be so overwhelmed that they can't help you because their hands are already full (LA), or retreat for safer ground and let it all work itself out (London).