How Do I Register A Handgun In Louisiana

Concealed Handgun Permit Unit

The online process is at present available for persons seeking to apply for a permit.
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Laws and Administrative Rules

This linked pamphlet contains selected relevant Louisiana statutes pertaining to concealed handguns, use of deadly forcefulness, and weapons, current through the virtually recent session of the Louisiana Legislature. The laws contained in the pamphlet are subject field to amendment, and information technology is your responsibility to be aware of and comply with the nigh recent statement of law.

NEW Law and Rule Booklet

How To Apply for a Concealed Handgun Allow

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

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

Review your awarding for completeness. An incomplete application may result in the filibuster or denial of your awarding.
Make sure all questions are answered correctly, specifically the questions with regard to arrests, medical weather, and eighteen USC 922 grand. (See selected statutes in the Law and Rule Booklet.)

Read the arrest question advisedly, equally 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 arrest dispositions with your application.
If you listed a medical condition you must have the treating physician complete the medical summary form before submitting your application.
If y'all are currently subject area to a protective or restraining guild you must provide a certified truthful copy with your application.

Original/Starting time-Time Applicants:

In lodge to employ for a curtained handgun permit, a citizen should follow the steps below:

Apply for a Concealed Handgun Permit by one of the post-obit ways:

Consummate and submit the new online Concealed Handgun Allow Application at https://chp-web.dps.louisiana.gov.
Download a Curtained Handgun Permit Application and complete the instructions found on pages 1 and two of the application.
Obtain an awarding at the State Police Headquarters (7919 Independence Blvd., Billy Rouge, LA 70806) between the hours of 8:00 am and 4:30 pm, Monday through Fri.

Provide all necessary documentation pertaining to training, arrest dispositions, medical summary dispositions, and divorce decrees (if applicable). New fingerprints must be submitted for original/first time applicants. Old fingerprints on file will non be accustomed.
Contact your local police office, local sheriff's department, or State Police Headquarters in Baton Rouge for fingerprinting. Fingerprinting at Land Police force Headquarters requires a $10.00 coin order or tin exist paid using a debit/credit carte. Prints must be submitted on an FBI Applicant Fingerprint Card. The carte du jour should be completed as outlined in the application instructions. Example
Paper applications, fingerprint cards, and/or other documentation must be submitted to:
Louisiana State Police
Concealed Handgun Permit Unit
PO Box 66375
Billy Rouge, LA 70896

Renewals:

Permit holders volition be notified in writing at their address of tape, approximately 120 days prior to the expiration of their permit to brainstorm the renewal process.
Upon notification, use for a Concealed Handgun Permit by one of the post-obit ways:

Consummate and submit the new online Concealed Handgun Permit Application at http://chp-spider 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 awarding at the Land Police Headquarters (7919 Independence Blvd., Billy Rouge, LA 70806) between the hours of eight:00 am and iv:30 pm, Monday through Friday.

Submit the renewal application with a new training document, a photocopy of your driver's license, and the appropriate fees. Annotation: Passport photos are no longer needed to procedure your applications. Submission of a fingerprint bill of fare is not needed for renewal applications.
The completed application should exist returned to the Department no less than ninety days prior to the expiration of the permit to permit sufficient fourth dimension for processing.
You must submit your awarding within 60 days after the expiration date or you lot volition exist required to submit a new original awarding including fingerprints.
Newspaper applications and/or other documentation must be submitted to:
Louisiana State Police
Concealed Handgun Permit Unit of measurement
PO Box 66375
Billy Rouge, LA 70896
ATTENTION: RENEWAL DEPT.

Fees

Five Year Permit (Original and Renewals):
Ages 21 - 64: $125
65 or Older: $62.50

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

NOTE:

If y'all have not continuously resided inside the Country of Louisiana for the 15 years immediately preceding the date on which your application is received, an additional $50 non-refundable fee shall be submitted. This is merely for starting time-time applicants and is not required for any subsequent renewals.
If you employ online, you will receive an e-mail once your application has been accepted. This email will comprise a link to pay for the permit past credit card. If you do not remit payment inside thirty (30) days of receiving the payment link, your application 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 apply the armed forces disbelieve, you must include a copy of your most recent orders.

Five Year Permit: $62.50
Lifetime Let: $250

Veterans
Veterans with an honorable belch are fee exempt.

Training

Original/First-Time Applicants:

In improver to meeting the qualifications in R.S. 40:1379.3(C), an applicant must demonstrate competence with a handgun by completion of an approved firearms safe or training course taught by an NRA or P.O.S.T. certified instructor that is registered with State Police, or completion of small artillery training 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 end & dorsum) with a copy of their final qualification record from their 201 file], or possession of a electric current valid license to carry a concealed weapon issued by a parish law enforcement officeholder.

Lifetime allow holders are required to consummate refresher preparation every v years as required by LRS 40:1379.3.(V)(iv).

Renewals:

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

Instructors

Any training course or class offered for the purpose of certification to obtain a concealed handgun let must be conducted by an NRA or P.O.Southward.T. certified teacher who has registered his name and certification with the Department. The Department does not regulate the fees charged by these instructors.

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

If you are interested in becoming an instructor, y'all must submit a completed instructor awarding, a detailed course syllabus, and certified true copies of your teacher certifications. Only Louisiana P.O.Due south.T. Firearm Instructor or National Rifle Association Basic Pistol, Personal Protection in the Dwelling house or Personal Protection Outside the domicile volition exist accepted. Please do non send cover letters, resumes, or any other fabric that is non required. This information must be submitted together or your application volition non be candy.

Teacher 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 equally of 03/16/2022.

Forms

Curtained Handgun Allow Application
Alter of Address
Instructor Information Form
Medical Summary and Disposition
Break/Revocation Affidavit DPSSP 4646 (Law Enforcement Utilize Just)

Prohibited Locations

R.Southward. 40:1379.3 (N) states that no concealed handgun may exist carried into and no concealed handgun let issued pursuant to this Department shall authorize or entitle a permittee to acquit a curtained handgun in any of the following:

A law enforcement office, station, or edifice;
A detention facility, prison, or jail;
A courthouse or court, provided that a judge may behave such a weapon in his own courtroom;
A polling identify;
A coming together place of the governing potency of a political subdivision;
The country capitol building;
Any portion of an airport facility where the carrying of firearms is prohibited under federal law, except that no person shall exist 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 baggage;
Whatever church, synagogue, mosque or like place of worship; See RS forty:1379.iii (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 permit, every bit defined in Part 2 of Affiliate 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.
Whatsoever school "firearm free zone" as divers in R.S. 14:95.six.

The provisions of R.S. forty:1379.3 (North) shall not limit the right of a property owner, lessee, or other lawful custodian to prohibit or restrict admission of those persons possessing a concealed handgun pursuant to a permit issued nether this Department. No individual to whom a concealed handgun permit is issued may acquit such curtained handgun into the private residence of another without outset receiving the consent of that person.

Duties of Permittees

The permit shall be retained past the permittee who shall immediately produce it upon the asking of any law enforcement officer. Anyone who fails to exercise so shall exist fined not more than i 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;
Permit the officer to temporarily disarm him.

A permittee may non carry and muffle a handgun while under the influence of alcohol or a controlled dangerous substance (CDS) every bit defined in R.S. 40:961 and 964. For purposes of the curtained 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 allow to deport a concealed handgun shall be revoked by the deputy secretary when the permittee is carrying and concealing a handgun under any of the following circumstances:

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

R.S. 40:1379.iii(L) provides that anyone who carries and conceals a handgun in violation of any provision of this Section, unless authorized to do then by another provision of the law, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than half-dozen months, or both.

R.South. xl:1379.three(C)(1) requires the making of a sworn application to the deputy secretarial assistant of public rubber services of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections. The providing of simulated or misleading information on the application or whatever documents submitted with the awarding shall exist grounds for the deprival or revocation of a concealed handgun permit. The application shall reflect training in pistols, revolvers, or both. Whatever permittee under this Section shall notify the department of whatever accost or name change inside thirty days of the change. Failure to timely notify the department of a proper noun or address change may result in break of the let for upward to thirty days.

R.S. xl:1379.3(R)(1) requires each permittee, within fifteen days of a misdemeanor or a felony arrest, other than a minor traffic violation, in this state or whatever other state, shall notify the deputy secretary of public safety services by certified post. The deputy secretary may append, for upwards to ninety days, the permit of any permittee who fails to meet the notification requirements of this Section.

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

Reciprocity

Constructive Baronial fifteen, 2004, the concealed handgun laws were amended apropos reciprocity with other states. The statute provides as follows:

"...A current and valid concealed handgun allow issued past another state shall be deemed to be valid inside this state if a current and valid curtained handgun permit issued past Louisiana is valid in those states." Louisiana law requires residents of the State of Louisiana to possess a Louisiana allow to bear a concealed weapon in this land. Louisiana police force does non prohibit residents from obtaining permits from other states to carry in those states.

Pursuant to R.S. 40:1379.3(T)(1) a valid allow in another state is valid in Louisiana if the issuing state honors concealed handgun permits issued past Louisiana.

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

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

*Land / Website*	*Agreement Date*	*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-xxx-2004	(317) 232-8200
Iowa	01-01-2011	(515) 725-6230
Kansas	01-22-2007	(785) 296-2215
Kentucky	08-sixteen-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	08-30-2009	(402) 471-4545
Nevada	06-22-2015	(775) 684-6262
New Hampshire	08-16-2004	(603) 271-3575
North Carolina	08-xvi-2004	(919) 716-6500
N Dakota	02-26-2007	(701) 328-5500
Ohio	08-15-2011	(800) 282-0515
Oklahoma	08-18-2004	(800) 522-8017 Ext. 2519
Pennsylvania	12-12-2006	(717) 783-1111
South Carolina	02-15-2005	(803) 896-7014
South Dakota	02-xv-2007	(605) 773-4102
Tennessee	12-18-1997	(615) 251-8590
Texas	08-12-1998	(512) 424-7293
Utah	08-xvi-2004	(801) 965-4445
Vermont	02-23-2007	(802) 244-8775
Virginia		(804) 674-2000
Washington	08-xiii-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 NOT laurels Louisiana permits

*Country*	*Date 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	08-18-2004	(617) 660-4600
New Jersey	08-26-2004	(609) 882-2000
New Mexico	12-14-2011	(505) 841-8053
New York	08-30-2004	(800) 770-0220
Oregon	10-01-2004	(503) 378-3070 ext.418
Rhode Island	08-23-2004	(401) 274-4400

Links

Federal Firearms License (FFL) CHP Status Inquiry

Office of the Country 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, Role I, Chapter xiii, Sections 1301 and 1317.

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

Oft Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Legislative News

Deed four of the Showtime Extraordinary Session of the 1996 Legislature amended and re-enacted R.Due south. 40:1379.3 providing for the issuance of statewide concealed handgun permits by the Deputy Secretarial assistant of the Department of Public Safety & Corrections (DPS). The permit grants statewide authorisation to a denizen to comport a curtained handgun on his person. A handgun is defined as "a blazon of firearm commonly referred to every bit a pistol or revolver originally designed to exist fired by the use of a unmarried mitt and which is designed to fire or is capable of firing fixed cartridge ammunition." Information technology 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 one, 2018) amended and reenacted R.S. 40:1379.3(U)(2) and (5), relative to concealed handguns; to provide relative to concealed handguns carried by authorized persons in houses of worship; to provide for sure tactical training; to provide for requirements for certain 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 (Constructive Baronial 1, 2018) amended and reenacted R.S. 14:95.2(C)(four) and enacted R.S. fourteen:95.2(C)(9), relative to curtained handgun permits; to provide relative to the carrying of a concealed handgun within one k feet of school property ; to provide an exception to the crime which prohibits the carrying of a firearm on school property by certain concealed handgun permit holders; and to provide for related matters.

The passage of Human activity 367 of the 2018 Regular Legislative Session (Effective October 1, 2018) amended and reenacted R.S. 14:95.i.3(D) and 95.x(B) and the introductory paragraph of R.S. 46:2136.3(A), to enact R.South. 14:79(A)(4), 95.ane.iii(Due east), and 95.ane.four, R.S. 46:2136.three(C), and Title XXXV of the Code of Criminal Procedure, to be comprised of Arts. one thousand through 1003, and to repeal R.Southward. 46:2137, relative to firearms; to provide penalties for the violation of a protective club; 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 as repository for firearms; to provide procedure for storage and return of firearms; to require the development of forms, policies, and procedures; and to provide for related matters.

2016

ATF Form iv processing modify. Whatsoever requests for the Primary Law Enforcement Officeholder (CLEO) to sign ATF Form 4 received after 7/13/16 exercise not need to be signed by the CLEO. Y'all will all the same be required to submit the form, but we do not have to sign and render to the applicant.

The passage of Act 44 of the 2016 Regular Legislative Session (Effective August 1, 2016) amended and reenacted R.S. forty:1379.iii(W), relative to concealed handgun permits; to exempt honorably discharged veterans of the U.Southward. armed forces from all fees associated with 5-year or lifetime concealed handgun permits. This Act doesn't affect currently active military personnel. Active duty personnel remain eligible to receive the half cost disbelieve with a copy of your virtually recent orders.

The passage of Act 212 of the 2016 Regular Legislative Session (Effective August 1, 2016) amended and reenacted R.S. forty:1379.iii(C)(6) and (10), relative to curtained handgun permits; to provide that a person who has obtained an expungement for a felony conviction shall not be considered ineligible to obtain a concealed handgun allow if:

The person'due south felony conviction was not for a crime of violence (as divers in R.S. 14:2(B)) and x years take elapsed since the completion of the person'due south probation, parole, and suspended judgement.

The person has been pardoned by the governor and the pardon does not expressly prohibit the person from aircraft, transporting, possessing, or receiving firearms (Governor'south Gilt Seal Pardon must expressly land the right to ship, transport, possess, or receive firearms has been restored).

The passage of Human action 465 ("Brandi Trahan Deed") of the 2016 Regular Legislative Session (Effective August 1, 2016) enacts R.South. forty:1379.3.2, providing that a person on whose behalf the court has issued a permanent injunction or a protective order to bring almost the cessation of abuse and which prohibits the discipline of the order from possessing a firearm for the duration of the injunction or protective order may apply to the deputy secretary of public safety services of the Department of Public Condom & Corrections (DPS&C) for the issuance of a temporary concealed handgun permit.

Provides that the person shall:

Utilise online or in person.
Concur to hold harmless the DPS&C.
Meet the qualifications for the issuance of a concealed handgun permit merely not demonstrate use of the firearm upon awarding (i.e. Concealed Handgun Training Grade certificate not required initially).
Pay a $25 fee authorized in present law. The fee shall be applied to the cost of a concealed handgun permit when training is completed.
Comply with all other restrictions and provisions of R.Due south. xl:1379.3.

Provides that the temporary concealed handgun permit:

Is valid only in Louisiana and shall not exist considered as satisfying the requirements of reciprocity with whatever other country curtained firearm provisions.
Shall not be construed to constitute testify of a background check required prior to the transfer of a firearm.
Shall expire 45 days from the date it is issued unless the regular concealed handgun allow has been issued prior to the expiration of the 45 day period.

The Act also provides that the failure to comport a copy of the permanent injunction or the protective order at all times the person is carrying the curtained handgun shall return the temporary concealed handgun allow invalid. Proposed police provides that the section shall conduct a groundwork check prior to the issuance of a curtained handgun permit.

Instructors that will offer reduced rate or complimentary preparation classes to applicants who hold a temporary allow

2014

The passage of Act 147 of the 2014 Regular Legislative Session amended and re-enacted R.Southward. 14:95.5 (C) relative to the possession of a firearm on the premises of an alcoholic drink outlet. This act provides an exception for persons possessing a firearm in accordance with a concealed handgun permit issued pursuant to R.S. forty:1379.one or 1379.3 on the bounds of an alcoholic beverage outlet which has been issued a Class A-Restaurant allow. (Effective Baronial 1, 2014)

The passage of Act 195 of the 2014 Regular Legislative Session enacts R.S. xiv:95.10 relative to the carrying of a concealed weapon by a person convicted of Domestic Abuse Battery. This act states that it is unlawful for any person who has been convicted of the offense of Domestic Abuse Battery, R.South. fourteen:35.three, to carry a concealed weapon. This act shall not apply if 10 years have passed since the completion of the sentence for domestic abuse battery or from probation, parole, or break of sentence. (Effective August 1, 2014)

The passage of Act 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 activity enables an active duty member, reserve member, or veteran of the armed services of the Usa to pay one one-half of the regular fee provided for in LAC 55:I:1307(B)(15). Act 614 applies to the 5-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 curtained handgun permit. Nosotros began issuing lifetime permits on August ane, 2013. The application has been updated to reflect this new option.

The passage of Act 398 of the 2013 Regular Legislative Session ceases requirements for the registration of firearms as defined in LRS 40:1781. Effective August 1, 2013, the Concealed Handgun Let Unit volition no longer have applications to annals or transfer firearms. However, this does not affect whatever requirement of federal law to register those weapons with the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Annual 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 on April xix, 1996. The number of curtained handgun permits issued, denied, suspended, or revoked during these periods and the reasons for such are categorized by age, race, sex, parish and nothing code.

2021 Annual Legislative Written report

2020 Annual Legislative Written report

2019 Annual Legislative Report

2018 Annual Legislative Written report

2017 Almanac Legislative Report

Contact Us

Please straight any written correspondence, or submit applications to:
Louisiana State Police force
Concealed Handgun Allow Unit
PO Box 66375
Billy Rouge, LA 70896

Concealed Handgun Permit Unit of measurement Phone Numbers:
(225) 925-4867
(225) 925-4868
(225) 922-0225 (Fax Number)

Role Personnel:
i. Sergeant Elizabeth LaMarca
2. Wyndie Chifici (Office Manager)

Concealed Handgun Permit Unit Electronic mail Address: