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Concealed Handgun Permit Unit of measurement

The online process is at present available for persons seeking to use for a permit.
Click below to apply.

Due to the large volume of applications received and delays in postal service processing times, citizens are urged to employ utilizing the online application process located above.

Laws and Administrative Rules

This linked pamphlet contains selected relevant Louisiana statutes pertaining to curtained handguns, use of deadly force, and weapons, current through the most recent session of the Louisiana Legislature. The laws contained in the pamphlet are bailiwick to amendment, and it is your responsibility to be enlightened of and comply with the nearly recent argument of police.

NEW Law and Rule Booklet

How To Apply for a Curtained Handgun Let

Due to the big volume of applications received and delays in post processing times, citizens are urged to apply utilizing the online application process located below.

ALL FEES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE, and must exist paid past coin order, cashier's check, or certified cheque.

In an endeavour to permit the most efficient processing of your application, we propose that you lot review the following tips for both new and renewal applications:

Review your application for completeness. An incomplete application may effect in the delay or denial of your application.
Brand sure all questions are answered correctly, specifically the questions with regard to arrests, medical conditions, and eighteen USC 922 g. (See selected statutes in the Constabulary and Rule Booklet.)

Read the arrest question carefully, as you must list all arrests, summons, and citations (except speeding citations) even if listed on a previous application. You must provide a certified truthful copy of all arrest dispositions with your application.
If you listed a medical condition you must take the treating physician complete the medical summary grade before submitting your awarding.
If you lot are currently discipline to a protective or restraining lodge you must provide a certified truthful copy with your application.

Original/First-Time Applicants:

In society to utilize for a curtained handgun permit, a citizen should follow the steps beneath:

Apply for a Concealed Handgun Allow past 1 of the following ways:

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

Provide all necessary documentation pertaining to training, arrest dispositions, medical summary dispositions, and divorce decrees (if applicable). New fingerprints must exist submitted for original/first time applicants. Old fingerprints on file volition not exist accepted.
Contact your local police office, local sheriff's section, or State Law Headquarters in Baton Rouge for fingerprinting. Fingerprinting at Country Police Headquarters requires a $10.00 money social club or tin can be paid using a debit/credit card. Prints must be submitted on an FBI Applicant Fingerprint Card. The card 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
Curtained Handgun Permit Unit
PO Box 66375
Billy Rouge, LA 70896

Renewals:

Permit holders will be notified in writing at their address of record, approximately 120 days prior to the expiration of their let to begin the renewal process.
Upon notification, apply for a Concealed Handgun Permit by one of the following ways:

Complete and submit the new online Concealed Handgun Permit Application at http://chp-web.dps.louisiana.gov.
Download a Concealed Handgun Permit Application and consummate the instructions found on pages one and two of the application.
Obtain an awarding at the State Law Headquarters (7919 Independence Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70806) between the hours of viii:00 am and 4:30 pm, Mon through Fri.

Submit the renewal awarding with a new training certificate, a photocopy of your commuter'due south license, and the advisable fees. NOTE: Passport photos are no longer needed to procedure your applications. Submission of a fingerprint menu is not needed for renewal applications.
The completed application should be returned to the Department no less than 90 days prior to the expiration of the let to allow sufficient fourth dimension for processing.
You must submit your awarding inside 60 days after the expiration engagement or you volition be required to submit a new original awarding including fingerprints.
Paper applications and/or other documentation must be submitted to:
Louisiana Country Police force
Concealed Handgun Allow Unit of measurement
PO Box 66375
Baton Rouge, LA 70896
ATTENTION: RENEWAL DEPT.

Fees

5 Yr 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 you have non continuously resided inside the State of Louisiana for the 15 years immediately preceding the date on which your application is received, an additional $fifty non-refundable fee shall exist submitted. This is only for first-time applicants and is not required for any subsequent renewals.
If you apply online, you will receive an email one time your awarding has been accepted. This email will comprise a link to pay for the permit by credit menu. If you lot do not remit payment within thirty (30) days of receiving the payment link, your application will exist purged from the organization and will require a new submission to continue.

Military Discount
If you lot are currently in the military and wish to use the military discount, you must include a copy of your about recent orders.

5 Year Permit: $62.50
Lifetime Permit: $250

Veterans
Veterans with an honorable belch are fee exempt.

Training

Original/First-Time Applicants:

In addition to meeting the qualifications in R.S. twoscore:1379.3(C), an bidder must demonstrate competence with a handgun by completion of an approved firearms safety or training course taught by an NRA or P.O.S.T. certified instructor that is registered with State Police, or completion of small arms training while serving in the war machine (as evidenced by a DD-214), [active service members, reservist and national guard members must include a articulate photocopy of their armed forces ID (front end & dorsum) with a copy of their terminal qualification tape from their 201 file], or possession of a current valid license to carry a concealed weapon issued by a parish constabulary enforcement officer.

Lifetime permit holders are required to complete refresher training every v years every bit required by LRS forty:1379.3.(V)(iv).

Renewals:

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

Instructors

Any grooming course or class offered for the purpose of certification to obtain a concealed handgun permit must be conducted by an NRA or P.O.S.T. certified instructor 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, you must submit a completed instructor application, a detailed grade syllabus, and certified true copies of your instructor certifications. Merely Louisiana P.O.S.T. Firearm Instructor or National Rifle Clan Basic Pistol, Personal Protection in the Home or Personal Protection Outside the home volition be accepted. Please do not send encompass letters, resumes, or whatever other fabric that is not required. This information must be submitted together or your application will non be processed.

Instructor Listing - These instructors have registered with the Curtained Handgun Permit Unit in accordance with the administrative rules and have authorized release of their names and phone numbers to applicants as of 03/16/2022.

Forms

Concealed Handgun Permit Application
Modify of Accost
Instructor Information Grade
Medical Summary and Disposition
Suspension/Revocation Affidavit DPSSP 4646 (Constabulary Enforcement Use Only)

Prohibited Locations

R.Due south. 40:1379.3 (N) states that no concealed handgun may be carried into and no curtained handgun permit issued pursuant to this Section shall authorize or entitle a permittee to carry a concealed handgun in whatever of the following:

A law enforcement office, station, or edifice;
A detention facility, prison, or jail;
A courthouse or courtroom, provided that a gauge may bear such a weapon in his own court;
A polling identify;
A meeting identify of the governing potency of a political subdivision;
The country capitol building;
Any portion of an airdrome facility where the carrying of firearms is prohibited nether federal law, except that no person shall be prohibited from carrying any legal firearm into the terminal, if the firearm is encased for shipment, for the purpose of checking such firearm as lawful baggage;
Any church building, synagogue, mosque or similar place of worship; See RS 40:1379.3 (U)
A parade or demonstration for which a permit is issued past a governmental entity;
Any portion of the permitted area of an establishment that has been granted a Class A-Full general retail permit, as defined in Part II of Chapter 1 or Part 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" every bit divers in R.S. 14:95.6.

The provisions of R.S. 40:1379.3 (N) shall not limit the right of a property possessor, lessee, or other lawful custodian to prohibit or restrict access of those persons possessing a concealed handgun pursuant to a permit issued under this Section. No private to whom a concealed handgun permit is issued may carry such concealed handgun into the private residence of another without showtime receiving the consent of that person.

Duties of Permittees

The permit shall be retained by the permittee who shall immediately produce it upon the request of whatever law enforcement officer. Anyone who fails to practice and then shall be fined not more than than one hundred dollars. Additionally, when whatsoever 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 downwardly;
Allow the officer to temporarily disarm him.

A permittee may not carry and conceal a handgun while under the influence of booze or a controlled dangerous substance (CDS) as defined in R.S. 40:961 and 964. For purposes of the concealed handgun police, a permittee is considered under the influence of alcohol when a blood booze 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 let to carry a concealed handgun shall exist revoked by the deputy secretarial assistant when the permittee is carrying and concealing a handgun under any of the post-obit circumstances:

The blood alcohol reading of the permittee is .05% or greater by weight of alcohol in the blood;
The permittee'south claret test or urine test shows the confirmed presence of a CDS as defined in R.S. twoscore:961 and 964;
The permittee refuses to submit to a department certified chemical test when requested to practise so by a constabulary enforcement officer.

R.Due south. 40:1379.3(L) provides that anyone who carries and conceals a handgun in violation of any provision of this Section, unless authorized to do and so past another provision of the law, shall exist fined non more than than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for non more than six months, or both.

R.S. xl:1379.3(C)(1) requires the making of a sworn application to the deputy secretary of public condom services of the Department of Public Condom and Corrections. The providing of faux or misleading information on the application or any documents submitted with the application shall be grounds for the denial or revocation of a concealed handgun permit. The application shall reflect preparation in pistols, revolvers, or both. Any permittee under this Department shall notify the department of whatever address or proper name alter within xxx days of the change. Failure to timely notify the department of a proper noun or address modify may result in pause of the permit for upwardly to thirty days.

R.Due south. 40:1379.3(R)(i) requires each permittee, inside fifteen days of a misdemeanor or a felony arrest, other than a modest traffic violation, in this state or any other land, shall notify the deputy secretary of public condom services by certified postal service. The deputy secretary may suspend, for upwardly to ninety days, the permit of whatever permittee who fails to see the notification requirements of this Section.

R.S. 40:1379.3(F)(1) mandates that the deputy secretarial assistant shall revoke the permit if at any fourth dimension during the permit flow the permittee fails to satisfy any i of the qualification requirements provided for in Subsection C of R.S. xl:1379.3.

Reciprocity

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

"...A current and valid concealed handgun permit issued by some other state shall be deemed to be valid within this state if a current and valid curtained handgun allow issued by Louisiana is valid in those states." Louisiana law requires residents of the State of Louisiana to possess a Louisiana permit to carry a concealed weapon in this country. Louisiana law does not prohibit residents from obtaining permits from other states to acquit in those states.

Pursuant to R.S. twoscore:1379.three(T)(one) a valid permit in another state is valid in Louisiana if the issuing state honors concealed handgun permits issued by Louisiana.

Permit holders are reminded that while conveying a concealed handgun in another state they are bound by that country's laws governing concealed acquit and permittees from other reciprocal states are bound by Louisiana concealed conduct laws while in Louisiana.

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

*State / Website*	*Agreement Date*	*Contact #*
Alabama	08-15-2004	(334) 242-7300
Alaska	08-16-2004	(907) 269-0392
Arizona	08-xviii-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	09-30-2004	(317) 232-8200
Iowa	01-01-2011	(515) 725-6230
Kansas	01-22-2007	(785) 296-2215
Kentucky	08-16-1999	(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-xvi-2004	(573) 751-3321
Montana	08-24-2004	(406) 444-2026
Nebraska	08-thirty-2009	(402) 471-4545
Nevada	06-22-2015	(775) 684-6262
New Hampshire	08-16-2004	(603) 271-3575
North Carolina	08-16-2004	(919) 716-6500
North 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	02-15-2007	(605) 773-4102
Tennessee	12-xviii-1997	(615) 251-8590
Texas	08-12-1998	(512) 424-7293
Utah	08-16-2004	(801) 965-4445
Vermont	02-23-2007	(802) 244-8775
Virginia		(804) 674-2000
Washington	08-xiii-2004	(206) 389-6800
West Virginia	11-17-2008	(800) 368-8808
Wisconsin	12-1-2011	(608) 266-1221
Wyoming	03-28-2002	(307) 777-4301

States that Exercise NOT honor Louisiana permits

*State*	*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-xviii-2004	(617) 660-4600
New Bailiwick of jersey	08-26-2004	(609) 882-2000
New Mexico	12-fourteen-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 State 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 Authoritative Code, Title 55, Office I, Affiliate 13, Sections 1301 and 1317.

Louisiana State Legislature Search
This is a searchable database of the Louisiana Revised Statutes. The specific laws apropos concealed handgun permits are located in R.Southward. 40:1379.three et seq.

Often Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Legislative News

Act 4 of the Get-go Extraordinary Session of the 1996 Legislature amended and re-enacted R.S. 40:1379.3 providing for the issuance of statewide concealed handgun permits by the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Public Prophylactic & Corrections (DPS). The let grants statewide authorization to a citizen to conduct a concealed handgun on his person. A handgun is defined every bit "a type of firearm unremarkably referred to as a pistol or revolver originally designed to be fired by the use of a single manus and which is designed to fire or is capable of firing fixed cartridge armament." It does not include "shotguns or rifles that accept been altered by having their stocks or barrels cut or shortened."

2018

The passage of Act 414 of the 2018 Regular Legislative Session (Effective August 1, 2018) amended and reenacted R.South. xl:1379.3(U)(2) and (v), relative to concealed handguns; to provide relative to curtained handguns carried past authorized persons in houses of worship; to provide for certain tactical training; to provide for requirements for certain religious organizations to allow concealed handguns to exist 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 (Effective August ane, 2018) amended and reenacted R.S. fourteen:95.2(C)(4) and enacted R.S. 14:95.2(C)(9), relative to curtained handgun permits; to provide relative to the conveying of a concealed handgun inside one m feet of schoolhouse belongings ; to provide an exception to the crime which prohibits the conveying of a firearm on schoolhouse belongings by certain concealed handgun permit holders; and to provide for related matters.

The passage of Deed 367 of the 2018 Regular Legislative Session (Effective October ane, 2018) amended and reenacted R.S. fourteen:95.one.three(D) and 95.10(B) and the introductory paragraph of R.S. 46:2136.3(A), to enact R.S. 14:79(A)(4), 95.ane.3(E), and 95.1.four, R.S. 46:2136.3(C), and Title XXXV of the Code of Criminal Procedure, to be comprised of Arts. 1000 through 1003, and to repeal R.S. 46:2137, relative to firearms; to provide penalties for the violation of a protective order; to provide penalties for fraudulent firearms purchases; to prohibit the illegal transfer of a firearm to a prohibited possessor; to crave sure reporting; to create a firearm transfer program; to designate sheriffs every bit repository for firearms; to provide procedure for storage and return of firearms; to crave the development of forms, policies, and procedures; and to provide for related matters.

2016

ATF Form 4 processing change. Whatever requests for the Master Law Enforcement Officer (CLEO) to sign ATF Form 4 received later vii/13/sixteen do non need to be signed by the CLEO. You will withal be required to submit the form, but we practise 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. 40:1379.3(W), relative to curtained handgun permits; to exempt honorably discharged veterans of the U.Southward. armed forces from all fees associated with five-yr or lifetime concealed handgun permits. This Act doesn't touch on currently active war machine personnel. Active duty personnel remain eligible to receive the half price discount with a copy of your near recent orders.

The passage of Act 212 of the 2016 Regular Legislative Session (Constructive Baronial 1, 2016) amended and reenacted R.S. 40:1379.iii(C)(half dozen) and (10), relative to concealed handgun permits; to provide that a person who has obtained an expungement for a felony conviction shall not be considered ineligible to obtain a curtained handgun permit if:

The person's felony confidence was non for a crime of violence (as defined in R.S. 14:2(B)) and 10 years have elapsed since the completion of the person's probation, parole, and suspended sentence.

The person has been pardoned past the governor and the pardon does non expressly prohibit the person from shipping, transporting, possessing, or receiving firearms (Governor'south Gold Seal Pardon must expressly state the right to ship, transport, possess, or receive firearms has been restored).

The passage of Act 465 ("Brandi Trahan Act") of the 2016 Regular Legislative Session (Effective August 1, 2016) enacts R.S. 40:1379.3.two, providing that a person on whose behalf the court has issued a permanent injunction or a protective social club to bring about the cessation of corruption and which prohibits the discipline of the gild 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 Safety & Corrections (DPS&C) for the issuance of a temporary curtained handgun permit.

Provides that the person shall:

Utilise online or in person.
Agree to hold harmless the DPS&C.
Meet the qualifications for the issuance of a curtained handgun allow but not demonstrate use of the firearm upon application (i.e. Curtained Handgun Training Course document non required initially).
Pay a $25 fee authorized in present law. The fee shall be applied to the price of a concealed handgun permit when grooming is completed.
Comply with all other restrictions and provisions of R.S. twoscore:1379.iii.

Provides that the temporary concealed handgun let:

Is valid only in Louisiana and shall not be considered as satisfying the requirements of reciprocity with whatever other land curtained firearm provisions.
Shall non be construed to establish evidence of a groundwork check required prior to the transfer of a firearm.
Shall expire 45 days from the engagement it is issued unless the regular curtained handgun permit has been issued prior to the expiration of the 45 mean solar day period.

The Human action also provides that the failure to acquit a copy of the permanent injunction or the protective lodge at all times the person is conveying the concealed handgun shall return the temporary concealed handgun allow invalid. Proposed law provides that the section shall conduct a background bank check prior to the issuance of a concealed handgun allow.

Instructors that volition offer reduced rate or free training classes to applicants who concur a temporary let

2014

The passage of Human activity 147 of the 2014 Regular Legislative Session amended and re-enacted R.S. 14:95.5 (C) relative to the possession of a firearm on the bounds of an alcoholic drinkable outlet. This deed provides an exception for persons possessing a firearm in accordance with a concealed handgun permit issued pursuant to R.S. forty:1379.1 or 1379.3 on the premises of an alcoholic beverage outlet which has been issued a Grade A-Eating house allow. (Constructive August 1, 2014)

The passage of Act 195 of the 2014 Regular Legislative Session enacts R.Due south. xiv:95.10 relative to the conveying 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 bedevilled of the crime of Domestic Abuse Battery, R.S. fourteen:35.3, to carry a concealed weapon. This act shall non use if 10 years accept 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 agile duty members, reserve members, and veterans of the military of the U.s.. This Act enables an agile duty member, reserve member, or veteran of the war machine of the U.s. to pay i half of the regular fee provided for in LAC 55:I:1307(B)(15). Act 614 applies to the five-year and lifetime permits. (Effective July four, 2014)

2013

The passage of Act 84 of the 2013 Regular Legislative Session allows for the issuance of a lifetime curtained handgun let. We began issuing lifetime permits on August i, 2013. The application has been updated to reflect this new pick.

The passage of Human activity 398 of the 2013 Regular Legislative Session ceases requirements for the registration of firearms as divers in LRS xl:1781. Effective Baronial 1, 2013, the Concealed Handgun Permit Unit volition no longer accept applications to register or transfer firearms. Nevertheless, this does not affect whatever requirement of federal law to register those weapons with the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Almanac Legislative Statistical Reports

These summary reports comprehend the menses for each respective calendar year, and also include statistical data for permits issued since inception of the CHP Unit on Apr 19, 1996. The number of curtained handgun permits issued, denied, suspended, or revoked during these periods and the reasons for such are categorized past age, race, sex, parish and zip code.

2020 Annual Legislative Report

2019 Annual Legislative Written report

2018 Almanac Legislative Report

2017 Annual Legislative Report

2016 Almanac Legislative Report

Contact Us

Please direct any written correspondence, or submit applications to:
Louisiana Land Police
Concealed Handgun Permit Unit of measurement
PO Box 66375
Baton Rouge, LA 70896

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

Office Personnel:
1. Sergeant Elizabeth LaMarca
2. Wyndie Chifici (Role Director)

Concealed Handgun Permit Unit Eastward-Mail Address:

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Source: http://www.lsp.org/handguns.html