The website is cool. It’s easy to navigate and explore. It has a ton of readily-accessible, logically-organized and presented information. You can learn about national and state transport and carry laws, or individual state statutes. You can drill down through an interactive map, which makes understanding reciprocity easy. And they even offer a blog, where more detailed information can be shared and discussed.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column reviews a resource I believe will give a lot of value to a lot of gun owners. See if you don't agree.
Best of all is the price, because you’ll notice the link gives full site access. [More]
Saturday, August 04, 2012
‘Gun Laws by State’ provides valuable resource
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Good for some things, definitely. No mention of open carry, nor information on the Wyoming page of the fact that no permit is required now for residents who CC. And I didn't see any way to comment on that to the author.
Bookmarked to give info to students.
For LA, it's wrong on restaurant carry and carry within 1,000 ft of a school.
MikeJ: We at "Gun Laws by State" rechecked the book reference to restaurant carry. In the LA Statutes, we found this:
§14:95.5. Possession of firearm on premises of alcoholic beverage outlet
A. No person shall intentionally possess a firearm while on the premises of an alcoholic beverage outlet.
B. "Alcoholic beverage outlet" as used herein means any commercial establishment in which alcoholic beverages of either high or low alcoholic content are sold in individual servings for consumption on the premises, whether or not such sales are a primary or incidental purpose of the business of the establishment.
C. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to the owner or lessee of an alcoholic beverage outlet, or to an employee of such owner or lessee, or to a law enforcement officer or other person vested with law enforcement authority acting in the performance of his official duties.
D. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
Acts 1985, No. 765, §1.
http://legis.la.gov/lss/lss.asp?doc=78744
As for the schools, the statute provides this:
§95.2. Carrying a firearm, or dangerous weapon, by a student or nonstudent on school property, at school-sponsored functions or firearm-free zone
A. Carrying a firearm, or dangerous weapon as defined in R.S. 14:2, by a student or nonstudent on school property, at a school sponsored function, or in a firearm-free zone is unlawful and shall be defined as possession of any firearm or dangerous weapon, on one's person, at any time while on a school campus, on school transportation, or at any school sponsored function in a specific designated area including but not limited to athletic competitions, dances, parties, or any extracurricular activities, or within one thousand feet of any school campus.
B. For purposes of this Section, the following words have the following meanings:
(1) "School" means any elementary, secondary, high school, vocational-technical school, college, or university in this state.
(2) "Campus" means all facilities and property within the boundary of the school property.
(3) "School bus" means any motor bus being used to transport children to and from school or in connection with school activities.
(4) "Nonstudent" means any person not registered and enrolled in that school or a suspended student who does not have permission to be on the school campus.
C. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to:
(1) A federal, state, or local law enforcement officer in the performance of his official duties.
(2) A school official or employee acting during the normal course of his employment or a student acting under the direction of such school official or employee.
(3) Any person having the written permission of the principal.
(4) The possession of a firearm occurring within one thousand feet of school property and entirely on private property, or entirely within a private residence, or in accordance with a concealed handgun permit issued pursuant to R.S. 40:1379.1 or R.S. 40:1379.3.
(5) Any constitutionally protected activity which cannot be regulated by the state, such as a firearm contained entirely within a motor vehicle.
(6) Any student carrying a firearm to or from a class, in which he is duly enrolled, that requires the use of the firearm in the class.
(7) A student enrolled or participating in an activity requiring the use of a firearm including but not limited to any ROTC function under the authorization of a university.
http://legis.la.gov/lss/lss.asp?doc=78741
We are aware that there are unique differences in Louisiana law as opposed to the other states, because it is based primarily on French and Spanish, as opposed to English law.
If there is something else we are missing or you are aware of other code citations, we would certainly like to have those in order to keep the Louisiana law page accurate.
Many thanks for your feedback. It does help to hear from people experienced in the state's laws.
Ashley Varner
"Gun Laws by State"
To MamaLiberty: Thank you for your suggestions. We are working on additions to the book for the 2013 edition, and we are going to add Open Carry for the next edition.
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