Bobby Jindal: “again, let us be clear. I know there has been a lot of confusion and a lot of rhetoric about the private right of action…”

“again, let us be clear. I know there has been a lot of confusion and a lot of rhetoric about the private right of action contained in this bill. In Louisiana's case, going back to what happened specifically after Katrina, our State has already passed a State law prohibiting anybody in State or local law agencies from confiscating legally owned guns. The intent of this law is to apply to those agencies receiving Federal funds. The intent of the right of action was to counteract what happened last year when, even despite a court judgment, despite a ruling from a judge, there was still not compliance with that court ruling to return the firearms. So the intent is to be able to allow the individuals to recover, for example, attorneys fees, court costs to put some teeth into this bill to make sure that if a judge does indeed rule in favor of a plaintiff that action will be taken. That did not always happen last year in Louisiana after Katrina. Mrs. McCARTHY. Reclaiming my time, and let me follow up with what you had just said. Because the language in the bill, as it stands right now, there is not really a clarification on that, and I hope that we can work on that.”