{"id":92917,"date":"2023-05-17T15:11:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T20:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92917"},"modified":"2023-05-17T15:11:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T20:11:57","slug":"92917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92917","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2nd-amendment\/2023\/05\/17\/state-28-constitutional-carry-on-the-move-in-louisiana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State 28? Constitutional Carry on the Move in Louisiana<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Legislation to end a permitting requirement for concealed carry is on the move in Louisiana and would make the state the 28th to adopt constitutional carry as the law of the land.<\/p>\n<p>Constitutional carry passed the Louisiana legislature two years ago and Breitbart News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/25\/louisianas-democrat-constitutional\/\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) vetoed it June 4, 2021.<br \/>\nIt is on the move again and WWLTV\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wwltv.com\/article\/news\/politics\/constitutional-carry-is-back-on-the-table-in-louisiana-what-does-that-mean-local-politics-guns\/289-a7f0f900-8145-49fd-83e6-2bfef2ae8e96\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">noted<\/a> it would \u201c[allow]\u00a0any law-abiding gun owner over 18, to carry a concealed handgun in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On May 25, 2023,\u00a0<em>Biz New Orleans<\/em>\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bizneworleans.com\/la-senate-committee-approves-bill-that-would-allow-concealed-carry-without-a-permit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">observed<\/a>\u00a0the constitutional carry legislation, sponsored by Rep. Danny McCormick (R), had passed out of committee. McCormick noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Louisiana is already an open carry state which allows law-abiding citizens to carry their firearms openly without mandatory training\u2026 Allowing those same law-abiding men and women to wear a jacket in colder weather or place their firearms in a purse while wearing a dress also would not cause chaos.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The same argument was made when constitutional carry was being debated in New Hampshire, when permitless open carry was legal but covering the gun with a jacket or sweatshirt was not.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently 27 constitutional carry states in the Union.<\/p>\n<p>Those states are: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.<br \/>\n(Florida\u2019s constitutional carry law takes effect July 1, 2023 and Nebraska\u2019s constitutional carry law takes effect September 10, 2023.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State 28? Constitutional Carry on the Move in Louisiana Legislation to end a permitting requirement for concealed carry is on the move in Louisiana and would make the state the 28th to adopt constitutional carry as the law of the land. Constitutional carry passed the Louisiana legislature two years ago and Breitbart News\u00a0reported\u00a0that Gov. John &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92917\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92918,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92917\/revisions\/92918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}