Representative Danny McCormick (R) Oil City
Oil City Representative Danny McCormick introduced legislation that would allow Louisianans to carry a concealed handgun on their person without needing a concealed carry permit.
Currently to concealed carry in Louisiana, you need to take a nine-hour course and pay a 125 dollar fee for a five-year license or 500 dollars for a lifetime license. McCormick said that mandate infringes on constitutional rights.
“I have always trusted rights to the individual and not to the Government,” said McCormick. “I think that we as a nation are a republic and in a republic, the rights belong to the individual and not the government.”
Proponents of the license argue it provides gun owners with vital gun-safety training. McCormick said firearms training is good, but the permit mandate is not.
“I think people should be responsible for their own training processes and I don’t think the dysfunctional government requiring training helps anything,” said McCormick.
If signed into law Louisiana would become the 19th state with a “constitutional carry” law. McCormick said he’s been told the bill has a lot of early support.
“Our rights are given to us by God and preserved in the constitution and the government didn’t have any right to take that right away from us to begin with,” said McCormick.
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