Kansas

Kansas has never required a license for open carry; K.S.A. 21-6302 regulates only concealed carry, and that has been permitless since 2015 for those 21+. Open carry has long been unrestricted for anyone 18+ who can legally possess.

Kansas has no statute specifically addressing churches; carry is left to the property owner absent a state prohibition.

No Kansas statute restricts carry by location in bars/restaurants. The only relevant limit is possession of a firearm "under the influence" (K.S.A. 21-6332), a class A nonperson misdemeanor.

Kansas allows statewide permitless carry (since 2015) for qualifying adults 21+, alongside an optional Concealed Carry Handgun License (K.S.A. § 75-7c04) mainly used for reciprocity. No boat/vessel/waterway restriction was found in Kansas carry law.

K.S.A. §75-7c10 provides that concealed-carry is NOT prohibited in any public area of a state or municipal building unless that area both (a) has 'adequate security measures' (e.g., screening, weapon storage) and (b) is conspicuously posted per Attorney General rules. So the default is that a courthouse, DMV, or city hall permits carry, and only becomes off-limits if that specific building has installed screening and posted signage — which many Kansas county courthouses in fact do.

Under the Personal and Family Protection Act, K.S.A. 75-7c10/75-7c20, public university buildings (Kansas is permitless-carry for 21+) generally cannot bar concealed carry UNLESS the building has "adequate security measures" (walk-through metal detectors at public entrances) or is a restricted-access-only area — a genuine building-by-building condition, effective statewide July 1, 2017.

Kansas requires specific statutory signage only for public buildings to bar licensees (K.S.A. § 75-7c10); for private businesses, an owner may exclude by posted notice or verbal request under the general trespass model, and carry is presumptively lawful absent that notice.

No KS statute requires advance owner consent; general criminal trespass law (K.S.A. 21-5808) requires notice before presence becomes unlawful (opt-out default). Constitutional-carry state.

Kansas's own concealed-carry guidance points to a separate KBI-published list of prohibited locations that I was unable to load in this session (the page I found only linked out to that document without reproducing its contents, and a direct fetch of a KBI PDF failed with a DNS error). I could not confirm one way or the other whether Kansas's list includes airports.

Kansas has had constitutional/permitless concealed carry since July 1, 2015 (HB 2409) for anyone 21+ who can legally possess a firearm; K.S.A. 21-6302's age restriction (concealed carry unlawful under 21) is effectively the only remaining age gate, and this applies in a vehicle the same as anywhere else.

No blanket hospital ban, but K.S.A. 75-7c20(k) exempts publicly-owned medical care facilities, adult care homes, community mental health centers, and indigent health care clinics from the 'adequate security measures' (metal detectors + armed guards) that public buildings otherwise must provide to lawfully post a no-carry policy — meaning these specific public medical facilities CAN post a no-carry sign without that security. Private hospitals/offices are governed by ordinary property/trespass rules. So whether you can carry hinges on whether that particular facility is posted.

Kansas is permitless-carry for 21+. K.S.A. §21-6309's prohibited places are limited to the Capitol complex, Governor's residence, posted state buildings, and courthouses; it expressly excludes parking structures from the definition of 'building.' No rest-area restriction. Verified against the statute text directly.

No Kansas statute found imposing a duty to inform law enforcement of concealed carry, proactively or if asked.

K.S.A. 75-7c04(a)(1): the Attorney General "shall not issue a license... if the applicant... is not a resident of the county where application for licensure is made or is not a resident of the state."

Kan. Stat. §21-6301(a)(11)-(12) bans firearms on K-12 property, but subsection (i)(5) exempts 'possession of a concealed handgun by an individual who is not prohibited from possessing a firearm under federal or state law' — a broad exemption that, notably, does not itself require a state-issued license (Kansas is permitless-carry). That is the trap: satisfying this STATE exemption without actually holding Kansas's optional concealed-carry license does not, by itself, satisfy the federal §922(q)(2)(B)(ii) exception, which requires a verified state license — so an unlicensed-but-legal Kansas concealed carrier could still be in technical violation of federal law within 1,000 feet of a school.

Kansas's general criminal trespass statute, K.S.A. 21-5808, makes entry unlawful after (1) a personally-communicated order to leave, OR (2) premises 'posted as provided in K.S.A. 32-1013... or in any other manner reasonably likely to come to the attention of intruders.' A properly formatted firearms sign could satisfy the posting route without any personal request being needed, but K.S.A. 32-1013's specific formatting requirements were written for outdoor/agricultural land, and it's unclear whether courts treat an interior retail sign the same way. No Kansas-specific firearms-signage statute exists.

Kan. Stat. Ann. § 12-16,124 (general firearms) and § 75-7c17(a) (concealed carry specifically): no city, county, or political subdivision may regulate, restrict, or prohibit carrying concealed handguns; conflicting local ordinances are null and void.

No Kansas statute found prohibiting firearms at polling places. Based on MAP research; not independently verified against Kansas's own prohibited-places statute.

No state-level magazine capacity restriction found.

No extreme risk protection order or red flag statute found in Kansas.

As of the July 1, 2026 effective date of HB 2501 (signed April 9, 2026), Kansas no longer imposes any state-level restriction on suppressors, SBR/SBS, or machine guns beyond the federal NFA process. Previously K.S.A. 21-6301 separately criminalized suppressors and short-barreled shotguns/rifles at the state level; HB 2501 removed those categories. Machine guns/automatic weapons were already subject to an NFA-compliance exemption. Very recently effective law — worth a follow-up check once enforcement/interpretation guidance exists.

Stand Your Ground by statute: Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 21-5222(c); 21-5230 ("no duty to retreat").

No Kansas statute requires background checks on private firearm transfers. Confirmed via absence from Giffords' UBC list.

K.S.A. 21-6301(a)(4) (possessing a suppressor) was repealed outright by 2026 Senate Substitute for HB 2501, effective July 1, 2026; before that, the same conduct was already exempted for anyone 'in compliance with the national firearms act.'

The clause banning 'any firearm designed to discharge or capable of discharging automatically' survives 2026 Senate Substitute for HB 2501's rewrite of K.S.A. 21-6301, but the statute's exemption subsection has long exempted 'any person or entity in compliance with the national firearms act, 26 U.S.C. 5801 et seq.' -- unchanged by the 2026 bill.

K.S.A. 21-6301 has never defined or restricted a short-barreled rifle -- only short-barreled shotguns and machine guns were ever listed.

The 'shotgun with a barrel less than 18 inches' clause was struck from 21-6301 by 2026 Senate Substitute for HB 2501, effective July 1, 2026, on top of the pre-existing NFA-compliance exemption that already covered it.

K.S.A. 21-6312 ('criminal possession of explosives') only criminalizes possession by someone with a felony conviction within the preceding five years; no Kansas statute banning ordinary civilian possession of a destructive device or AOW was located in this research pass.