How to keep guns off Bourbon Street? Designate a police station as a school
Hindustan TimesNEW ORLEANS — A police station in New Orleans' French Quarter will be designated a vocational technical school in a move that will instantly outlaw gun possession in the surrounding area — including a stretch of bar-lined Bourbon Street — as a new Louisiana law eliminating the need for concealed carry firearm permits takes effect. “It’s using laws that have always been on the books to deal with a real and current threat to public safety.” Designating the 8th District station a school is just one way of giving police officers more leeway to stop and search people suspected of illegally carrying a weapon in the Quarter, Kirkpatrick said. “I’m working hard to help keep New Orleans safe, but the City cannot avoid state law by unilaterally designating police stations ‘vo-tech locations’ — that’s just not how our community college and vocational-technical system is set up," Murrill said. Murrill also criticized city officials' announcement that the law, which takes effect Thursday, won't be enforced in New Orleans until Aug. 1, when an existing city firearms ordinance expires.
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