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Laws and Authoritative Rules

This linked pamphlet contains selected relevant Louisiana statutes pertaining to concealed handguns, employ of deadly forcefulness, and weapons, electric current through the most recent session of the Louisiana Legislature. The laws contained in the pamphlet are subject to amendment, and it is your responsibility to exist aware of and comply with the near contempo statement of law.

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How To Apply for a Concealed Handgun Permit

ALL FEES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE, and must be paid by coin order, cashier'southward check, or certified check.

In an effort to allow the most efficient processing of your application, we advise that you review the following tips for both new and renewal applications:

Review your application for completeness. An incomplete application may result in the delay or denial of your application.
Brand sure all questions are answered correctly, specifically the questions with regard to arrests, medical conditions, and 18 USC 922 g. (See selected statutes in the Law and Rule Booklet.)

Read the arrest question carefully, as you must list all arrests, summons, and citations (except speeding citations) even if listed on a previous awarding. You must provide a certified true copy of all abort dispositions with your application.
If you listed a medical status yous must accept the treating doctor complete the medical summary form before submitting your application.
If you are currently subject to a protective or restraining order you must provide a certified true copy with your application.

Original/First-Fourth dimension Applicants:

In order to apply for a concealed handgun permit, a citizen should follow the steps below:

Apply for a Curtained Handgun Permit by 1 of the following ways:

Complete and submit the new online Concealed Handgun Permit Application at https://chp-web.dps.louisiana.gov.
Download a Concealed Handgun Permit Awarding and complete the instructions found on pages one and two of the application.
Obtain an awarding at the State Police Headquarters (7919 Independence Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70806) between the hours of 8:00 am and iv:30 pm, Mon through Fri.

Provide all necessary documentation pertaining to grooming, arrest dispositions, medical summary dispositions, and divorce decrees (if applicable). New fingerprints must be submitted for original/kickoff fourth dimension applicants. Old fingerprints on file will not be accustomed.
Contact your local police force office, local sheriff'south department, or State Police Headquarters in Baton Rouge for fingerprinting. Fingerprinting at State Police Headquarters requires a $10.00 money order or can be paid using a debit/credit card. Prints must be submitted on an FBI Applicant Fingerprint Carte. The menu should be completed as outlined in the application instructions. Instance
Paper applications, fingerprint cards, and/or other documentation must be submitted to:
Louisiana State Constabulary
Curtained Handgun Permit Unit
PO Box 66375
Billy Rouge, LA 70896

Renewals:

Permit holders will be notified in writing at their address of record, approximately 120 days prior to the expiration of their permit to brainstorm the renewal process.
Upon notification, apply for a Curtained Handgun Permit by one of the following means:

Complete and submit the new online Concealed Handgun Permit Application at http://chp-web.dps.louisiana.gov.
Download a Concealed Handgun Permit Application and complete the instructions found on pages one and two of the application.
Obtain an application at the State Police force Headquarters (7919 Independence Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70806) between the hours of 8:00 am and iv:xxx pm, Monday through Friday.

Submit the renewal application with a new training certificate, a photocopy of your driver's license, and the appropriate fees. Annotation: Passport photos are no longer needed to process your applications. Submission of a fingerprint card is non needed for renewal applications.
The completed application should be returned to the Section no less than ninety days prior to the expiration of the permit to allow sufficient time for processing.
Y'all must submit your application inside lx days after the expiration appointment or you volition be required to submit a new original application including fingerprints.
Newspaper applications and/or other documentation must exist submitted to:
Louisiana State Police
Concealed Handgun Permit Unit of measurement
PO Box 66375
Billy Rouge, LA 70896
Attention: RENEWAL DEPT.

Fees

Five Year Allow (Original and Renewals):
Ages 21 - 64: $125
65 or Older: $62.fifty

Lifetime Let:
Ages 21 - 64: $500
65 or Older $250

NOTE:

If you accept not continuously resided inside the State of Louisiana for the xv years immediately preceding the date on which your application is received, an additional $50 non-refundable fee shall be submitted. This is only for commencement-time applicants and is not required for whatsoever subsequent renewals.
If you utilise online, yous will receive an email one time your application has been accepted. This email volition incorporate a link to pay for the let by credit card. If you practise not remit payment within xxx (30) days of receiving the payment link, your awarding volition be purged from the system and will require a new submission to proceed.

Military Discount
If you are currently in the military and wish to use the war machine discount, y'all must include a re-create of your most recent orders.

Five Year Allow: $62.50
Lifetime Permit: $250

Veterans
Veterans with an honorable discharge are fee exempt.

Training

Original/Starting time-Fourth dimension Applicants:

In addition to meeting the qualifications in R.S. 40:1379.iii(C), an applicant must demonstrate competence with a handgun by completion of an approved firearms prophylactic or preparation grade taught by an NRA or P.O.S.T. certified instructor that is registered with State Police, or completion of small arms preparation while serving in the military (as evidenced past a DD-214), [active service members, reservist and national guard members must include a clear photocopy of their military ID (front & back) with a re-create of their last qualification record from their 201 file], or possession of a current valid license to carry a concealed weapon issued by a parish law enforcement officer.

Lifetime let holders are required to complete refresher grooming every five years every bit required by LRS xl:1379.3.(5)(4).

Renewals:

Pursuant to LAC 55:I:1307.D, each permittee applying for a renewal of his permit shall complete additional educational training within one year prior to submitting a renewal application. To obtain renewal preparation, please contact ane of the LSP registered instructors.

Instructors

Any preparation course or class offered for the purpose of certification to obtain a concealed handgun allow must be conducted by an NRA or P.O.S.T. certified instructor who has registered his proper noun and certification with the Department. The Department does non regulate the fees charged past these instructors.

Instructor Requirements - Click hither to view Louisiana Concealed Handgun Permit Instructor Requirements

If you lot are interested in becoming an instructor, you must submit a completed instructor application, a detailed course syllabus, and certified true copies of your instructor certifications. Simply Louisiana P.O.S.T. Firearm Instructor or National Burglarize Association Basic Pistol, Personal Protection in the Dwelling house or Personal Protection Outside the dwelling house will exist accepted. Delight do non send comprehend letters, resumes, or any other material that is not required. This information must be submitted together or your awarding will not be processed.

Instructor List - These instructors have registered with the Curtained Handgun Permit Unit in accordance with the administrative rules and have authorized release of their names and telephone numbers to applicants as of 03/16/2022.

Forms

Concealed Handgun Permit Awarding
Change of Address
Teacher Information Grade
Medical Summary and Disposition
Intermission/Revocation Affidavit DPSSP 4646 (Police Enforcement Utilise Only)

Prohibited Locations

R.S. 40:1379.three (Due north) states that no concealed handgun may exist carried into and no concealed handgun allow issued pursuant to this Section shall authorize or entitle a permittee to acquit a concealed handgun in whatever of the post-obit:

A law enforcement office, station, or edifice;
A detention facility, prison house, or jail;
A courthouse or courtroom, provided that a judge may behave such a weapon in his own courtroom;
A polling place;
A coming together place of the governing authority of a political subdivision;
The state capitol edifice;
Any portion of an airport facility where the conveying of firearms is prohibited under federal police, except that no person shall be prohibited from carrying any legal firearm into the final, if the firearm is encased for shipment, for the purpose of checking such firearm as lawful luggage;
Any church building, synagogue, mosque or similar identify of worship; Run into RS 40:1379.3 (U)
A parade or demonstration for which a permit is issued by a governmental entity;
Any portion of the permitted area of an establishment that has been granted a Class A-General retail let, equally defined in Function II of Chapter 1 or Office II of Chapter 2 of Title 26 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises.
Any schoolhouse "firearm free zone" every bit defined in R.S. fourteen:95.6.

The provisions of R.S. twoscore:1379.3 (North) shall non limit the correct of a property owner, lessee, or other lawful custodian to prohibit or restrict admission of those persons possessing a concealed handgun pursuant to a allow issued under this Section. No individual to whom a concealed handgun permit is issued may acquit such curtained handgun into the private residence of some other without first receiving the consent of that person.

Duties of Permittees

The let shall be retained past the permittee who shall immediately produce it upon the asking of any law enforcement officer. Anyone who fails to do so shall be fined not more than than one hundred dollars. Additionally, when any peace officer approaches a permittee in an official manner or with an identified purpose, the permittee shall:

Notify the officer that he has a weapon on his person;
Submit to a pat down;
Allow the officer to temporarily disarm him.

A permittee may not comport and conceal a handgun while under the influence of alcohol or a controlled dangerous substance (CDS) as defined in R.S. 40:961 and 964. For purposes of the concealed handgun law, a permittee is considered under the influence of alcohol when a blood alcohol reading of .05% or greater by weight of alcohol in the blood is obtained, or a blood or urine test shows any confirmed presence of a CDS.

The permit to carry a concealed handgun shall be revoked by the deputy secretary when the permittee is carrying and concealing a handgun under whatever of the following circumstances:

The claret alcohol reading of the permittee is .05% or greater by weight of alcohol in the blood;
The permittee'south blood test or urine exam shows the confirmed presence of a CDS as divers in R.Southward. 40:961 and 964;
The permittee refuses to submit to a department certified chemical exam when requested to do so past a police enforcement officeholder.

R.Due south. 40:1379.3(50) provides that anyone who carries and conceals a handgun in violation of any provision of this Department, unless authorized to do so by some other provision of the constabulary, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more six months, or both.

R.S. 40:1379.3(C)(1) requires the making of a sworn application to the deputy secretary of public safety services of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections. The providing of faux or misleading information on the awarding or whatsoever documents submitted with the awarding shall exist grounds for the denial or revocation of a concealed handgun permit. The awarding shall reflect preparation in pistols, revolvers, or both. Whatsoever permittee under this Section shall notify the section of any address or name change inside 30 days of the change. Failure to timely notify the department of a name or address change may result in interruption of the permit for upward to 30 days.

R.S. twoscore:1379.3(R)(1) requires each permittee, inside fifteen days of a misdemeanor or a felony arrest, other than a minor traffic violation, in this land or any other state, shall notify the deputy secretary of public safety services by certified mail. The deputy secretary may suspend, for up to 90 days, the permit of whatsoever permittee who fails to meet the notification requirements of this Section.

R.S. 40:1379.iii(F)(1) mandates that the deputy secretary shall revoke the let if at whatsoever time during the allow menstruum the permittee fails to satisfy any i of the qualification requirements provided for in Subsection C of R.S. 40:1379.3.

Reciprocity

Effective August 15, 2004, the concealed handgun laws were amended apropos reciprocity with other states. The statute provides equally follows:

"...A electric current and valid concealed handgun permit issued by another state shall be deemed to be valid within this country if a current and valid curtained handgun allow issued by Louisiana is valid in those states." Louisiana police force requires residents of the State of Louisiana to possess a Louisiana permit to behave a concealed weapon in this state. Louisiana law does not prohibit residents from obtaining permits from other states to carry in those states.

Pursuant to R.S. xl:1379.3(T)(1) a valid let in another state is valid in Louisiana if the issuing state honors curtained handgun permits issued by Louisiana.

Permit holders are reminded that while conveying a concealed handgun in another state they are leap by that state'due south laws governing concealed carry and permittees from other reciprocal states are bound by Louisiana curtained carry laws while in Louisiana.

States that honor Louisiana permits AND whose permits are honored in Louisiana

*Country / Website*	*Understanding Engagement*	*Contact #*
Alabama	08-15-2004	(334) 242-7300
Alaska	08-16-2004	(907) 269-0392
Arizona	08-18-2004	(800) 256-6280
Arkansas	07-31-2007	(501) 618-8600
Colorado	09-02-2004	(303) 239-5850
Florida	07-12-1999	(850) 488-5381
Georgia	09-30-2004	(404) 657-2203
Idaho	08-16-2004	(208) 884-7000
Indiana	09-30-2004	(317) 232-8200
Iowa	01-01-2011	(515) 725-6230
Kansas	01-22-2007	(785) 296-2215
Kentucky	08-xvi-1999	(502) 227-2221
Maine	06-25-2009	(800) 452-4664
Michigan	08-31-2004	(517) 332-2521
Minnesota	07-31-2004	(651) 793-2400
Mississippi	08-12-2004	(601) 987-1586
Missouri	08-16-2004	(573) 751-3321
Montana	08-24-2004	(406) 444-2026
Nebraska	08-thirty-2009	(402) 471-4545
Nevada	06-22-2015	(775) 684-6262
New Hampshire	08-16-2004	(603) 271-3575
North Carolina	08-16-2004	(919) 716-6500
North Dakota	02-26-2007	(701) 328-5500
Ohio	08-15-2011	(800) 282-0515
Oklahoma	08-xviii-2004	(800) 522-8017 Ext. 2519
Pennsylvania	12-12-2006	(717) 783-1111
Due south Carolina	02-15-2005	(803) 896-7014
Southward Dakota	02-15-2007	(605) 773-4102
Tennessee	12-18-1997	(615) 251-8590
Texas	08-12-1998	(512) 424-7293
Utah	08-sixteen-2004	(801) 965-4445
Vermont	02-23-2007	(802) 244-8775
Virginia		(804) 674-2000
Washington	08-13-2004	(206) 389-6800
West Virginia	xi-17-2008	(800) 368-8808
Wisconsin	12-1-2011	(608) 266-1221
Wyoming	03-28-2002	(307) 777-4301

States that Exercise Non honour Louisiana permits

*Land*	*Appointment Notified*	*Contact #*
California	08-12-2004	(916) 227-0163
Delaware	08-05-2004
Hawaii	08-19-2004	(808) 586-1160
Illinois	08-23-2004	(800) 255-3323
Maryland	08-17-2004	(410) 799-0191
Massachusetts	08-xviii-2004	(617) 660-4600
New Jersey	08-26-2004	(609) 882-2000
New Mexico	12-14-2011	(505) 841-8053
New York	08-thirty-2004	(800) 770-0220
Oregon	10-01-2004	(503) 378-3070 ext.418
Rhode Isle	08-23-2004	(401) 274-4400

Links

Federal Firearms License (FFL) CHP Status Inquiry

Function of the State Register
This is a searchable database of the Louisiana Administrative Code. These are the administrative rules governing the issuance, and regulation of concealed handgun permits. These rules are contained in the Louisiana Administrative Code, Title 55, Part I, Chapter xiii, Sections 1301 and 1317.

Louisiana State Legislature Search
This is a searchable database of the Louisiana Revised Statutes. The specific laws concerning concealed handgun permits are located in R.S. 40:1379.3 et seq.

Often Asked Questions

Oft Asked Questions

Legislative News

Act 4 of the First Extraordinary Session of the 1996 Legislature amended and re-enacted R.South. 40:1379.3 providing for the issuance of statewide concealed handgun permits past the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Public Rubber & Corrections (DPS). The permit grants statewide authority to a denizen to acquit a curtained handgun on his person. A handgun is defined equally "a type of firearm commonly referred to as a pistol or revolver originally designed to exist fired by the utilize of a single manus and which is designed to fire or is capable of firing stock-still cartridge ammunition." It does not include "shotguns or rifles that have been altered past having their stocks or barrels cut or shortened."

2018

The passage of Act 414 of the 2018 Regular Legislative Session (Effective August 1, 2018) amended and reenacted R.Due south. 40:1379.3(U)(ii) and (5), relative to concealed handguns; to provide relative to concealed handguns carried past authorized persons in houses of worship; to provide for certain tactical grooming; to provide for requirements for sure religious organizations to allow concealed handguns to be carried in places of worship pursuant to valid handgun permits; and to provide for related matters.

The passage of Act 629 of the 2018 Regular Legislative Session (Effective August 1, 2018) amended and reenacted R.S. 14:95.2(C)(4) and enacted R.Due south. 14:95.ii(C)(9), relative to curtained handgun permits; to provide relative to the carrying of a concealed handgun within 1 thousand feet of school holding ; to provide an exception to the criminal offence which prohibits the carrying of a firearm on school belongings by certain concealed handgun allow holders; and to provide for related matters.

The passage of Act 367 of the 2018 Regular Legislative Session (Effective October 1, 2018) amended and reenacted R.Southward. 14:95.1.3(D) and 95.10(B) and the introductory paragraph of R.S. 46:2136.iii(A), to enact R.S. 14:79(A)(four), 95.1.3(E), and 95.i.four, R.S. 46:2136.3(C), and Championship XXXV of the Code of Criminal Procedure, to be comprised of Arts. yard through 1003, and to repeal R.S. 46:2137, relative to firearms; to provide penalties for the violation of a protective guild; to provide penalties for fraudulent firearms purchases; to prohibit the illegal transfer of a firearm to a prohibited owner; to crave certain reporting; to create a firearm transfer program; to designate sheriffs every bit repository for firearms; to provide process for storage and return of firearms; to crave the development of forms, policies, and procedures; and to provide for related matters.

2016

ATF Form 4 processing change. Any requests for the Chief Law Enforcement Officer (CLEO) to sign ATF Form 4 received after 7/xiii/16 do not need to be signed past the CLEO. Yous will yet be required to submit the form, but nosotros exercise not have to sign and render to the applicant.

The passage of Act 44 of the 2016 Regular Legislative Session (Constructive Baronial 1, 2016) amended and reenacted R.S. xl:1379.3(W), relative to curtained handgun permits; to exempt honorably discharged veterans of the U.South. war machine from all fees associated with 5-twelvemonth or lifetime concealed handgun permits. This Act doesn't impact currently active war machine personnel. Active duty personnel remain eligible to receive the half price disbelieve with a copy of your nearly recent orders.

The passage of Human action 212 of the 2016 Regular Legislative Session (Constructive August 1, 2016) amended and reenacted R.S. 40:1379.3(C)(half dozen) and (x), relative to concealed handgun permits; to provide that a person who has obtained an expungement for a felony conviction shall non be considered ineligible to obtain a concealed handgun permit if:

The person's felony conviction was non for a crime of violence (as defined in R.Southward. 14:2(B)) and ten years have elapsed since the completion of the person'south probation, parole, and suspended sentence.

The person has been pardoned by the governor and the pardon does not expressly prohibit the person from shipping, transporting, possessing, or receiving firearms (Governor's Gilded Seal Pardon must expressly country the right to ship, send, possess, or receive firearms has been restored).

The passage of Deed 465 ("Brandi Trahan Act") of the 2016 Regular Legislative Session (Constructive August 1, 2016) enacts R.South. forty:1379.three.2, providing that a person on whose behalf the courtroom has issued a permanent injunction or a protective order to bring about the cessation of abuse and which prohibits the subject area of the social club from possessing a firearm for the duration of the injunction or protective order may apply to the deputy secretary of public rubber services of the Department of Public Rubber & Corrections (DPS&C) for the issuance of a temporary concealed handgun permit.

Provides that the person shall:

Apply online or in person.
Hold to concur harmless the DPS&C.
Come across the qualifications for the issuance of a concealed handgun permit but non demonstrate use of the firearm upon application (i.e. Concealed Handgun Training Course certificate non required initially).
Pay a $25 fee authorized in present law. The fee shall be applied to the toll of a concealed handgun permit when training is completed.
Comply with all other restrictions and provisions of R.Due south. 40:1379.three.

Provides that the temporary curtained handgun permit:

Is valid only in Louisiana and shall not be considered as satisfying the requirements of reciprocity with any other state curtained firearm provisions.
Shall non be construed to constitute bear witness of a groundwork check required prior to the transfer of a firearm.
Shall expire 45 days from the date information technology is issued unless the regular concealed handgun permit has been issued prior to the expiration of the 45 day period.

The Act likewise provides that the failure to carry a copy of the permanent injunction or the protective order at all times the person is carrying the concealed handgun shall render the temporary concealed handgun permit invalid. Proposed law provides that the section shall acquit a background check prior to the issuance of a curtained handgun permit.

Instructors that will offer reduced charge per unit or free grooming classes to applicants who hold a temporary let

2014

The passage of Human action 147 of the 2014 Regular Legislative Session amended and re-enacted R.South. 14:95.5 (C) relative to the possession of a firearm on the premises of an alcoholic beverage outlet. This human action provides an exception for persons possessing a firearm in accordance with a concealed handgun permit issued pursuant to R.Southward. 40:1379.1 or 1379.3 on the premises of an alcoholic beverage outlet which has been issued a Class A-Restaurant permit. (Effective August 1, 2014)

The passage of Act 195 of the 2014 Regular Legislative Session enacts R.Due south. xiv:95.10 relative to the carrying of a concealed weapon by a person convicted of Domestic Corruption Battery. This act states that it is unlawful for any person who has been convicted of the law-breaking of Domestic Abuse Bombardment, R.S. 14:35.3, to comport a concealed weapon. This human action shall not employ if 10 years have passed since the completion of the sentence for domestic abuse battery or from probation, parole, or pause of judgement. (Effective August one, 2014)

The passage of Human activity 614 of the 2014 Regular Legislative Session provides for reduced fees for active duty members, reserve members, and veterans of the armed forces of the United States. This Human action enables an active duty member, reserve member, or veteran of the armed forces of the The states to pay i half of the regular fee provided for in LAC 55:I:1307(B)(15). Act 614 applies to the five-year and lifetime permits. (Effective July 4, 2014)

2013

The passage of Act 84 of the 2013 Regular Legislative Session allows for the issuance of a lifetime concealed handgun let. Nosotros began issuing lifetime permits on August 1, 2013. The application has been updated to reflect this new selection.

The passage of Deed 398 of the 2013 Regular Legislative Session ceases requirements for the registration of firearms as defined in LRS forty:1781. Effective August ane, 2013, the Curtained Handgun Permit Unit will no longer take applications to register or transfer firearms. However, this does non affect any requirement of federal law to register those weapons with the The states Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Almanac Legislative Statistical Reports

These summary reports cover the period for each corresponding calendar year, and also include statistical data for permits issued since inception of the CHP Unit of measurement on Apr nineteen, 1996. The number of concealed handgun permits issued, denied, suspended, or revoked during these periods and the reasons for such are categorized by age, race, sex, parish and zip code.

2021 Annual Legislative Report

2020 Annual Legislative Report

2019 Almanac Legislative Written report

2018 Annual Legislative Written report

2017 Annual Legislative Report

Contact Us

Please direct any written correspondence, or submit applications to:
Louisiana State Police
Concealed Handgun Permit Unit
PO Box 66375
Baton Rouge, LA 70896

Curtained Handgun Permit Unit Telephone Numbers:
(225) 925-4867
(225) 925-4868
(225) 922-0225 (Fax Number)

Function Personnel:
1. Sergeant Elizabeth LaMarca
2. Wyndie Chifici (Office Manager)

Concealed Handgun Allow Unit of measurement E-mail Address: