Moreno: "We are going to keep New Orleans safe."

The permit less conceal carry law, or constitutional carry, takes effect this week on July 4th, but not in the city of New Orleans, at least not yet.

City leaders and law enforcement officials held a press conference to brief New Orleans residents on what steps they have taken to ensure the city is as safe as possible as legislation changes.

For starters, New Orleans already has a law on the books banning carrying a concealed weapon without a permit. It will stay in effect until August 1st.

Officials set about finding ways to keep it that way, at least in The French Quarter, and so the eighth district police station will become designated a vocational/technical facility allowing it to fall under a state law that says no guns shall be carried within one thousand feet of such a building.

At that press conference, Councilwoman Helena Moreno said that keeping populated areas of New Orleans as gun free as possible.

“We have a gun violence problem and we have worried this law would make the situation worse.”

From the start, New Orleans city leaders and law enforcement were not thrilled about the constitutional carry law Moreno says giving up was not an option even after the legislative session failed to see state lawmakers support keeping New Orleans insulated from the new law.

“I had legislators tell me that we were out of options, but this team was going to find a path to keep the people of the city of New Orleans safe.”