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Child Access Prevention
Louisiana has no law that imposes a penalty on individuals who fail to secure an unattended firearm and leave it accessible to an unsupervised minor. 1
Safe Storage
Louisiana has no law requiring unattended firearms to be stored in a specific manner.
Louisiana also does not require a locking device to accompany the sale of a firearm, and no state statutes require firearm owners to affirmatively lock their weapons.
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- In 2025, Louisiana passed a resolution requesting the State Department of Health to examine the prevalence of injury and death resulting from unintentional shootings and suicides by minor children in Louisiana and the effectiveness of Child Access Prevention laws in other states.[↩]