Published: May 30, 2023
By: Jenna Bridges, LSU Manship School News Service
BATON ROUGE — A Senate committee advanced a bill, 4-1, that would allow permitless
concealed carry for residents over 21.
Rep. Danny McCormick, R-Oil City, presented House Bill 131 to the Senate Judiciary B
committee Tuesday.
The committee amended the bill to change the age requirement for carrying concealed firearms without obtaining a permit or training to 21 from 18.
Three Republicans and Sen. Gregory W. Tarver Sr., a Democrat from Shreveport, supported the bill. Sen. Joseph Bouie Jr., D-New Orleans voted in opposition to it.
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