In the weeks and months before Louisiana’s Constitutional Carry law took effect on July 4th, critics proclaimed the new law would wreak havoc on the state; particularly in New Orleans, where officials tried to turn most of the French Quarter and downtown business district into a semi-gun-free zone where concealed carry licenses would still be required for folks to lawfully carry.
Those plans haven’t panned out, and for now, visitors and residents are still free to carry a concealed firearm without a state-issued permit, so long as they’re legally allowed to own one. So has the new law led to anarchy in the Crescent City?
Not according to the city’s crime stats.
New Orleans police have seized fewer guns and made fewer illegal gun possession arrests this year compared to last, leading experts to question the impact of Louisiana’s permitless carry law.
According to the NOPD’s most recent crime report, illegal gun possession arrests have dropped by 42% and officers have confiscated 1,788 firearms in criminal investigations, a 21% decrease.
Criminologist Ashraf Esmail, Ph.D., from Dillard University, says the decrease is partly due to a new state law allowing residents to carry concealed firearms without a permit or prior training.
“Police are now limited to stop anyone suspected of a gun because permitting concealment is no longer necessary,” Ashraf Esmail, Ph.D. said.
Esmail says the law restricts how the NOPD can make arrests and take guns off the street.
“The use of guns have to visible for law enforcement to do something about it and that could lead to even more gun violence,” he said. […]
— Read More: bearingarms.com
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