Safe gun storage requirement holstered in Louisiana

By: Wesley Muller

Outlets: Louisiana Illuminator

Published: April 8, 2026

Words: 718

Last Updated: 3 months, 3 weeks ago

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A Louisiana Senate committee blocked a proposal Tuesday that would have made it a misdemeanor crime to leave loaded guns unsecured in the presence of young children, the mentally ill or anyone prohibited from having firearms.

Senate Bill 344, sponsored by Sen. Regina Barrow of Baton Rouge, failed in the Senate Committee on Judiciary C in a 1-5 vote. All five Republican members opposed the legislation. Barrow, the committee’s lone Democrat, was the lone …

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