New data shows lack of ordered firearm returns for convicted domestic abusers

BATON ROUGE - New data by the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement may show a lack of enforcement of the state's firearm dispossession law.Every parish was measured on the amount of transfer-of-firearm orders and the amount of firearms that were actually returned in 2023. The data shows over a 100 cases of defendants keeping their guns. The law passed in 2014 and recently upheld by the Supreme Court states that judges must issue an order for those convicted of domestic abuse to give