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Arkansas Duty to Inform Police Laws (2026)
Conditional: Arkansas has no unprompted duty to inform, but under the Arkansas State Police CHCL rules, whenever a licensee carrying a handgun is asked by any officer for identification — that is, at every traffic stop — the licensee must both present the license and affirmatively notify the officer that they hold a CHCL and have a handgun (5 CAR § 1-201(c)); § 5-73-315 requires carrying the license whenever armed.
Arkansas has no unprompted duty to inform, but under the Arkansas State Police CHCL rules, whenever a licensee carrying a handgun is asked by any officer for identification — that is, at every traffic stop — the licensee must both present the license and affirmatively notify the officer that they hold a CHCL and have a handgun (5 CAR § 1-201(c)); § 5-73-315 requires carrying the license whenever armed. There is no analogous statute for permitless carriers.
Official source: dps.arkansas.gov →
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