Ammunition Regulation Laws in Louisiana

Last updated December 31, 2023 .

In 2008, Louisiana enacted a law prohibiting any person from intentionally giving, selling, donating, providing, lending, delivering, or otherwise transferring ammunition to any person known by the offender to have been convicted of a felony and prohibited by Louisiana law from possessing a firearm.¹

Louisiana law also prohibits the import, manufacture, sale, purchase, possession and transfer of armor-piercing bullets.² Federal law also restricts armor-piercing bullets, although the definition of that term differs under federal and Louisiana law.³

However, Louisiana does not:

Require a license for the sale of ammunition;

Require sellers of ammunition to maintain a record of the purchasers; or

Prohibit persons who are ineligible to possess firearms under state law from possessing ammunition, although the federal ammunition purchaser prohibitions apply.

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2008 La. ALS 622 (codified at La. Rev. Stat. § 14:95.1.2).[↩]
La. Rev. Stat. § 40:1811.[↩]
See La. Rev. Stat. § 40:1810.[↩]