We reported recently how New Orleans attempted to skirt the state’s new constitutional carry law by declaring a police station in the popular French Quarter to be a “school,” which would effectively ban legal carry in the immediate area, which included a stretch of Bourbon Street.
Now, the city of Lafayette, Louisiana, appears to be trying a similar tactic. On August 21, Lafayette Parish Mayor-President Monique Boulet announced that the Lafayette Police Department will enforce a 1,000-foot firearm-free school zone around the Lafayette Science Museum.
Earlier, the University of Louisiana Lafayette declared the science museum downtown, along with contracted private hotels used for student housing, to be “school property” in order to create more firearm-free zones across the city and avoid the recently passed constitutional carry law. While the university operates the museum, the city of Lafayette owns the building. However, Mayor Boulet has deferred to the university’s declaration that the museum is part of its campus and, thus, a firearm-free zone.
“We are going to enforce [the 1,000-foot gun-free zone] because it is a school,” Boulet said. “[ULPD] is not going to enforce the law on the street; they don’t have jurisdiction over Jefferson Street around the Science Museum,” says Boulet. “The reality is, if it’s a school, that’s the law, [Lafayette Police Department] is supposed to enforce the law.”
The Lafayette situation, like the earlier attempt to scuttle carry in New Orleans, didn’t sit well with Republican State Sen. Blake Miguez, who authored the constitutional carry bill that passed the legislature and was signed into law by Gov. Jeff Landry. Sen. Miguez has sent a letter to Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill asking her office to weigh in on the Lafayette situation.
“As Louisiana Constitution Article 1, Section 11 subjects any restriction on the right of a citizen to keep and bear arms to strict scrutiny, it is paramount that this question should be resolved to produce the least amount of governmental interference in the lawful exercise of a civil right by the resident of this state,” Miguez stated in the letter. “Otherwise, situations could arise where a school might assert that its ‘campus’ is anywhere school business takes place, even if the location has no other connection to the school.”
Miquez then mentioned several potential scenarios that schools could try to use to infringe on the right of Louisianans to carry a firearm for self-defense.
“Foreseeable instances of this could be a privately owned field where LSU conducts an anthropological dig, a convention center rented by Tulane to host a scientific conference, or a golf course where the university president regularly plays with potential donors,” Miguez wrote. “In each of these situations, the ‘business’ of a school is being conducted off campus by the choice of the school representatives in the same manner as ULL is choosing to conduct some of its business operations, including hosting limited selected classes, at the Lafayette Science Museum outside of the purview of the CEA.”
AG Murrill has already made a statement on the gun-free zones in Lafayette. But Miguez is looking for an official AG opinion on the situation.
“The law on Gun-Free School Zones is narrow,” Murrill said after the mayor’s announcement. “The Lafayette Science Museum downtown does not fall under it.”
According to the ho.mose.xual governors this is just fine. Since they believe the local government can write any law they wish, that violates the Bill of Rights.
And the people who vote for them agree.
btw
An anti-civil rights h.om.osexu.al did run for Louisiana governor in the recent past.
“GUN FREE SCHOOL ZONES ACT OF 1990
This act, a product of the Clinton administration, criminalizes every lawful gun owner who travels with a firearm outside the home, with a few narrow exceptions. It was never intended to do this, and needs to be amended. Under the proposed amended act below, schools themselves would remain gun-free zones, and the near-total gun ban this law erroneously creates in America would be corrected.” [gunlaws.com]
“The Act prohibits possession of a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school – of school property. Motorists who drive by a school likely fall well within this 1,000-foot gun-free zone.” [SAF]
These 1000 foot bubbles can effectively ban any firearm from whole townships and should be found unconstitutional. I’ve not found any exemptions for access to roadways, boulevards, etc. that pass by school properties.
George Bush senior was presidon’t in 1990. Thousand points of BS. And a major fudd. W was almost as bad(I’ll re-sign the ass-ault weapon ban if it gets to my desk). Reagun would have signed it.🙄
I did not double check the reference, should have. Both father and son were IMO ‘deep state’, no one grew the size gub’mint more than junior and senior as a former director of a certain clandestine 3 letter should leave everyone with a few reservations of trust.
In the end much to the disapponitment of gun control zealots Bush II didn’t make a fuss and let the clintoon Assault Weapon Ban sunset…that reopened the door for freedom so give credit where credit is due.
He did nothing at a time when doing otherwise could cost his power base dearly in elections. He got more than he deserved credit wise.
Vinny there are exceptions to the 1000′ rule in Louisiana as explained here:
R S 14:95.6B
(3) A commercial establishment which is permitted by law to have firearms or armed security.
(4) Private premises where a firearm is kept pursuant to law.
(5) Any constitutionally protected activity within the firearm-free zone, such as a firearm contained entirely within a motor vehicle.
For purposes of this Section:
(1) “School” means any public or private elementary, secondary, high school, or vocational-technical school, college, or university in this state.
(2) “School campus” means all facilities and property within the boundary of the school property.
https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/law.aspx?d=78745
Where I live a school on Main St cannot be passed without being within 25′ of the campus on either of the 2 sides. And there are homes across the streets which is easily within the 1000′.
However, B4 and B5 are listed as exceptions in the link supplied.
What’s the voodoo equivalent of the “spirit of aloha”?
My greatest peeve with radical environmentalists is the dashed hopes they created in promising the sea level rise. These coastal states should have been gone by now.
Hoden or something like that maybe. Been a long time since the Katrina cleanup and learning from that mess.
“What’s the voodoo equivalent of the ‘spirit of aloha’?
Its harris/walz judging from her no-substance ‘cackling joy’ campaign.
Thought that was their channeling their inner thule society?
Memphis has it’s problems too: https://www.yahoo.com/news/tennessee-republican-leaders-threaten-withhold-182840490.html
I have a good friend, also a coon ass and the turkey hunter from Hell, that lives not far from Lafayette. I can only imagine how much sleep he’s going to lose worrying about those school zones.
It is always amazing how urban centers live in fear of armed citizens. They just just lose it every time. Rarely, very rarely, its the regular john q citizen thats the problem with a gun.
The reason they fear armed citizens is because they plan oppression.
The only thing blocking their oppression is ownership of firearms.
Getting rid of armed citizens has nothing to do with crime, terrorism, school shootings, or whatever the other excuse they offer.
So your logical response that concealed carriers are law abiding falls on deaf ears.
They are planning something horrible that you would resist and if you don’t have a gun, you are unable to resist.
“Another Louisiana City Tries To Avoid Constitutional Carry”
We are discussing Lousyana*; “the law” is whatever is needed to win election, or retain an elected official.
Long about 1971 (IIRC) the AG was jailed for suborning a jury. While in jail, the convicted AG conducted a re-election campaign from his jail cell; he won re-election, and released himself from jail.
Then, a few years later, it was discovered that two Dim state legislators were serving federal time in Texas; their state salaries were being paid to their accounts (don’t remember if the two had been replaced as legislators, but there were sufficient Dims in the legislature that two politicians doing time in Texas didn’t shift the balance of power in the legislature).
With no apology to Texas, “Lousyana is like a “whole ‘nuther country”.
*Lousyanna” law is primarily Napoleanic, with some Spanish and US law tossed in.
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