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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.((2008 La. ALS 622 (codified at La. Rev. Stat. § 14:95.1.2).))

Louisiana law also prohibits the import, manufacture, sale, purchase, possession and transfer of armor-piercing bullets.((La. Rev. Stat. § 40:1811.)) Federal law also restricts armor-piercing bullets, although the definition of that term differs under federal and Louisiana law.((See La. Rev. Stat. § 40:1810.))

However, Louisiana does not:

  • Require a license for the sale of ammunition;
  • Require sellers of ammunition to maintain a record of the purchasers; or

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