Posted on 05/03/2018 9:00:16 AM PDT by BBell
The Louisiana House voted 59-36 Wednesday (May 2) to allow visitors to carry guns at K-12 schools and on university campuses if they have concealed weapons permits.
The legislation would allow people to have guns at schools and universities, regardless of whether the institutions are public or private. House Bill 602, sponsored by state Rep. Blake Miguez, R-Erath, now moves to the Senate for consideration.
Under current law, most people are not allowed to carry a gun into a school or university building unless they are in law enforcement or use a weapon for class.
This proposal would allow visitors to educational institutions -- but not students or employees who work on campus -- to carry a weapon as long as they had a conceal carry permit. Miguez said about 125,000 people in Louisiana are conceal carry permit holders.
Similar efforts to allow teachers and university students to have guns on campus failed earlier in the legislative session. Miguez sought to distance his bill from other "school safety" proposals that have been defeated.
"It is about self-defense. It is not about school safety," he said last week.
Under current law, people other than law enforcement officers have to leave their weapons locked in their cars when they go into a school building. At universities, students are allowed to keep weapons in a dormitory or locked in their cars, under state law, but they cannot carry them around campus.
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The National Rifle Association supports the bill, but Louisiana's two largest teachers unions -- the Louisiana Federation of Teachers and the Louisiana Association of Educators -- oppose the proposal. The Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops, which oversees many Catholic schools in the state, was also against the bill.
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Evil NRA, pressuring politicians to bend to the will of THE NRA.
This should have called this David’s law.
Only 125,000 in Louisiana? Heck, there were 255,000 here in Illinois as of April 2017.
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14mm people in IL.
Most coonasses and Rednecks in LA don't get a CCW permit since they believe (correctly) the 2nd Amendment is their only permit.
Illinois has over 8 million more people than Louisiana. Although Louisiana is a gun friendly state they do not make it easy to get a concealed carry here but at the same time a lot of people do not feel the need to get a concealed carry because it is legal to open carry and it is legal to carry a loaded weapon anywhere in your vehicle. Even under the driver’s seat if you want.
That and you can open carry and keep a loaded weapon anywhere in your vehicle.
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