Louisiana rep whose granddaughter uses AR-15 rifle files concealed carry expansion

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/2023/03/28/louisiana-
representative-whose-granddaughter-uses-ar15-assault-rifle-files-
concealed-carry-bill/70055173007/

A Louisiana lawmaker who says his 6-year-old granddaughter is "quite
proficient" with an AR-15 assault rifle she used to kill her first deer
last year has filed a bill to expand gun rights in the state.

Republican Oil City state Rep. Danny McCormick's House Bill 131 would
allow Louisiana adults 18 and older to carry handguns without permits or
training as is currently required.

"The question is why don't we trust law-abiding citizens with their Second
Amendment Rights?" McCormick said.

It will be the fourth time McCormick has carried the measure, which
cleared the House easily last year before it stalled in the Senate in the
aftermath of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting where a gunman killed 19
children and two adults.

This year's measure will be debated in the wake of the most recent school
shooting in Nashville where three children and three adults were killed
Monday.

McCormick noted that all school shootings "happen in gun-free zones." He
believes many mass shootings could be mitigated if another armed man or
woman could take out the shooter with his or her own weapon.

"The duration of a mass shooting always depends on the arrival of a second
gun," McCormick posted on his Facebook page.

Supporters of McCormick's legislation refer to it as "constitutional
carry" because they believe the Second Amendment already grants that
right. Twenty-five states have enacted similar concealed carry expansion
laws, including all three of Louisiana's neighboring states Arkansas,
Mississippi and Texas.

"It should be legal already," McCormick said.

Louisiana is known as an "open carry" state, which means people can carry
visible firearms without a permit or training.

Opponents, like those representing the Louisiana Association of Chiefs of
Police, have warned allowing concealed carry without permits elevates the
potential of illegal gun violence or accidental shootings.

But McCormick said expanding concealed carry "isn't going to create chaos
or turn us into the wild, wild West."

McCormick said the gun rights expansion was the top priority for
constituents in his rural northwestern Louisiana district.

He said the bill is particularly important to him because he wants his
four granddaughters ages 10, 2 and twin 6-year-olds to be able to protect
themselves as adults.

"It doesn't make sense that they could walk into a store with a (pistol)
strapped on their hip but they can't put a snub-nosed .38 (pistol) in
their purse to protect themselves from murder or rape," he said. "My
granddaughters are quite proficient with weapons."

McCormick posted a video of himself and one of his 6-year-old
granddaughters on his Facebook page featuring the AR-15 she used to kill
her first deer in November.

"She used an AR-15, which my anti-gun people like to call assault weapons,
but as you can see (she) uses it to hunt with," McCormick said in the
video. "We're so proud of her."

Lawmakers passed a concealed carry bill in 2021 that was nearly identical
to McCormick's legislation, but Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards vetoed
the measure.

Edwards has generally been a reliable vote for gun rights expansion bills,
but he said he believes the current law requiring in-person training and a
permit "strikes the right balance."


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