Here is everything you need to know and do to get your permit:

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Checklist of needed items to obtain your permit:

• Application with the 3 affidavits completed and notarized. 
  NOTE: You can fill out the application online BEFORE you print it out.

• Passport type photograph described in the downloadable application.

• Photocopy of Louisiana Driver’s License or Louisiana Identification Card.

• Correct Fee as described in Rule Booklet.

• Proof of Training as described in Rule Booklet. (Partial List of Instructors)

• Certified True Copies of court minutes as requested in “Arrest, Detention, and Litigation Section.”  (If you have not been arrested this is not applicable.)

• Medial Summary Disposition completed by the treating physician or a copy of your medical records. (If you answered yes to any of the medical questions)

• If divorced, copies of the divorce settlement, decree, or final judgment along with any orders or injunctions of the court.

• Completed Fingerprint Card [example]
   

 

To qualify for a concealed handgun permit, a citizen shall:

(1)  Make sworn application to the deputy secretary of public safety services of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections.  The providing of false 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 training in pistols, revolvers, or both.  Any permittee under this Section shall notify the department of any address or name change within thirty days of the change.  Failure to timely notify the department of a name or address change may result in suspension of the permit for up to thirty days.
(2)  Agree in writing to hold harmless and indemnify the department, the state, or any peace officer for any and all liability arising out of the issuance or use of the concealed handgun permit.
(3)  Be a resident of the state and have been a resident for six months or longer immediately preceding the filing of the application.
(4)  Be twenty-one years of age or older.
(5)  Not suffer from a mental or physical infirmity due to disease, illness, or retardation which prevents the safe handling of a handgun.
(6)  Not be ineligible to possess a firearm by virtue of having been convicted of a felony.
(7)  Not have been committed, either voluntarily or involuntarily, for the abuse of a controlled dangerous substance, as defined by R.S. 40:961 and 964, or been found guilty of, or entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to a misdemeanor under the laws of this state or similar laws of any other state relating to a controlled dangerous substance within a five-year period immediately preceding the date on which the application is submitted, or be presently charged under indictment or a bill of information for such an offense.
(8)  Not chronically and habitually use alcoholic beverages to the extent that his normal faculties are impaired. It shall be presumed that an applicant or permittee chronically and habitually uses alcoholic beverages to the extent that his normal faculties are impaired if the applicant has been found guilty of, or entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to operating a vehicle while intoxicated, or has been admitted, either voluntarily or involuntarily, for treatment as an alcoholic, within the five-year period immediately preceding the date on which the application is submitted, or at any time after the application has been submitted.
(9)  Not have entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to or been found guilty of a crime of violence as defined in R.S. 14:2 at the misdemeanor level, unless five years have elapsed since completion of sentence or any other conditions set by the court have been fulfilled, or unless the conviction was set aside and the prosecution dismissed, prior to the date on which the application is submitted.
(10)  Not have been convicted of, have entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, or not be charged under indictment or a bill of information for any crime of violence or any crime punishable by imprisonment for a term of one year or greater.  A conviction, plea of guilty, or plea of nolo contendere under this Paragraph shall include a dismissal and conviction set-aside under the provisions of Code of Criminal Procedure Article 893.
(11)  Not be a fugitive from justice.
(12)  Not be an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana, depressants, stimulants, or narcotic drugs.
(13)  Not have been adjudicated to be mentally deficient or been committed to a mental institution.
(14)  Not be an illegal alien in the United States.
(15)  Not have been discharged from the Armed Forces of the United States with a discharge characterized as "Under Other than Honorable Conditions", a "Bad Conduct Discharge", or a "Dishonorable Discharge".  In the case of Commissioned Officers and Warrant Officers of the United States Armed Forces, the punishment of "Dismissal" rendered subject to a verdict of "guilty" at a trial by military court-martial is deemed to be disqualifying under this Paragraph. For the purposes of this Paragraph, the United States Coast Guard is considered an armed force.
(16)  Not have a history of engaging in violent behavior.  There shall be a rebuttable presumption that an applicant has a history of engaging in violent behavior upon proof that, within a ten-year period immediately preceding the date of the application, the applicant has been arrested or charged on three or more occasions for any crime of violence as defined in R.S. 14:2(B), or has been arrested or charged on two or more occasions for any crime of violence that may be punished by death.
(17)  Not be ineligible to possess a firearm under 18 USC 922(g).

 

All you have to do (if you have none of the above-mentioned disqualifiers) is to collect the above items and mail them to:

Concealed Handgun Permit Unit

PO Box 66375
Baton Rouge, LA 70896

Phone: (225) 925-4867
Fax:     (225) 922-0225

Print yourself out this checklist and go over it before you mail your application.
 

Congratulations on the decision to take responsibility for being an armed citizen!

If you need any help or advice, feel free to contact us online, or at one of the numbers listed below!

Happy shooting!

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