Louisiana
Bill to let people carry concealed guns without permits dies in Louisiana Legislature
Amendments proposed Tuesday by the committee would have let people carry concealed weapons only if they took education courses and were entered in a state database to show completion of those courses.
“My supporters wouldn’t want any required training or a government list that their name would go on,” McCormick told the committee.
A hardline Second Amendment advocate, McCormick has proposed what he calls the “constitutional carry” bill in previous sessions of the Legislature. He argues that the U.S. Constitution upholds the right to carry concealed firearms, and that Louisiana’s current laws take away that right.
By April of this year, 26 U.S. states had approved some form of a permitless concealed carry law, according to The Trace, a nonprofit news outlet that covers firearms. Most are in the southern, western and mid-western U.S.