Kansas Gun Laws
Gun Laws Overview
RIFLES & SHOTGUNS | HANDGUNS | |
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Permit to Purchase | No | No |
Registration of Firearms | No | No |
Licensing of Owner | No | No |
Permit to Carry | No | No |
The list and map below are included as a tool to assist you in validating your information. We have made every effort to report the information correctly, however reciprocity and recognition agreements are subject to frequent change. The information is not intended as legal advice or a restatement of law and does not include: restrictions that may be placed on non-resident permits, individuals under the age of 21, qualifying permit classes, and/or any other factor which may limit reciprocity and/or recognition. For any particular situation, a licensed local attorney must be consulted for an accurate interpretation. YOU MUST ABIDE WITH ALL LAWS: STATE, FEDERAL AND LOCAL. |
STATE STATUS | |
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Castle Doctrine | Enacted |
No-Net Loss | No Legislation |
Right to Carry Confidentiality | Provisions Enacted |
Right to Carry in Restaurants | Partial Ban |
Right To Carry Laws | No Permit Required |
Right To Carry Reciprocity and Recognition | Outright Recognition |
Right to Keep & Bear Arms State Constitutional Provisions | With Provisions |
Laws on Purchase, Possession and Carrying of Firearms
Purchase
No state permit is required to purchase a rifle, shotgun, or handgun. MORE |
Possession
No state permit is required to purchase a rifle, shotgun, or handgun. MORE |
Carrying
State law does not generally prohibit the open carrying of a handgun. Any person who can legally own a firearm may concealed carry if they are 21 or over. No permit/license is required. MORE |
Preemption
No city or county shall adopt any ordinance, resolution or regulation, and no agent of any city or county shall take any administrative action, governing the purchase, transfer, ownership, storage or transporting of firearms or ammunition, or any component or combination thereof. MORE |
Machine Guns
It is unlawful to possess: any device designed, used or intended for use in silencing the report of any firearm; a shotgun with a barrel less than 18 inches in length: or any firearm designed to discharge or capable of discharging automatically more than once by a single function of the trigger. MORE |
Range Protection
A person who owns, operates, manages or uses a sport shooting range that conforms to generally accepted operation practices in the state is not subject to civil liability or criminal prosecution in any matter relating to noise or noise pollution... MORE |
Miscellaneous
It is unlawful to change, alter, remove or obliterate the name of the maker, model, manufacturer’s number or other identifying mark of any firearm. Possession of such a firearm is prima facie evidence of guilt. MORE |
Sources: Kansas Statutes Annotated § 21-4201 through § 21-4206. |
Sunday, March 1, 1992
Describing her attacker as a man who had once been "one of the family," Juliette Blackmon, 81, of ...
Saturday, February 1, 1992
Clint Spear, 10, was at home with a group of eight children and their baby sitter when a ...
Saturday, February 1, 1992
Craig Workman was in his Wichita, Kans., liquor store when two men armed with knives jumped him and ...
Sunday, December 1, 1991
Playing a serious game of see-you, raise-you, a Kansas City store clerk captured a woman who tried to ...
Monday, July 1, 1991
When his 74-year-old neighbor phoned for help one evening, saying someone was pounding on her front door, a ...
Friday, February 1, 1991
Larry Wheeler got his gun and drove to investigate when his mother-in-law had not returned home after giving ...
Thursday, November 1, 1990
Ralph and Rosie Wells were strolling on their Sumner County, Kans., farm when they saw two suspicious strangers. ...
Monday, October 1, 1990
A Kansas City, Kans., resident was on the phone when five men kicked in the door, falsely identified ...
Friday, July 1, 1988
Liquor store owner Burl Clevenger of Wichita, Kans., had to use his concealed .38 for the second time ...
Tuesday, December 1, 1987
Closing up her Wichita, Kans., restaurant, Amanda Childs heard a noise outside the back door and thought one ...