Kentucky

Official Kentucky State Police page confirms: KRS §237.109, effective June 27, 2019, allows any person 21+ (not a prohibited possessor) to carry concealed without a license; open carry has never been separately licensed in Kentucky and is protected under the Kentucky Constitution.

Kentucky has no statute prohibiting firearms in places of worship (KRS 237.115 governs general posted-property rules); carry there is a matter of ordinary property-owner discretion.

KRS 244.125 bans a loaded firearm in the room where alcohol is sold by the drink, but exempts "a bona fide restaurant open to the general public having dining facilities for not less than fifty (50) persons" that receives less than 50% of its annual food-and-beverage receipts from alcohol sales.

Kentucky has statewide permitless carry (KRS § 527.020, since 2019) for any person legally able to possess a firearm, resident or not. No boat/vessel restriction was found in the Kentucky Revised Statutes carry provisions reviewed.

KRS §527.020 bars a licensee from carrying a concealed firearm into 'any courthouse ... solely occupied by [a] Court of Justice courtroom, or court proceeding' — courts are off-limits. Separately, KRS §237.115 lets (but does not require) a state/city/county/urban-county government prohibit or limit concealed carry in the portion of a building it owns, leases, or controls, meaning a DMV office or city hall is only off-limits if that specific local government has chosen to restrict it by ordinance.

KRS § 237.115(1) lets both public AND private post-secondary institutions prohibit concealed weapons on their property (most do). Mitchell v. University of Kentucky (Ky. 2012) carved out an exception requiring campuses to allow a licensee to keep a firearm locked in a vehicle's glove box/trunk even where the campus otherwise bans carry.

KRS § 237.115 lets a private business post to prohibit concealed deadly weapons; absent a posted sign, carry is presumptively lawful.

No KY statute requires advance owner consent; general criminal trespass law (KRS 511.080) requires notice before presence becomes unlawful (opt-out default). Constitutional-carry state.

KRS § 237.110(16)(h) (quoted directly, with citation, in Wikipedia's 'Gun laws in Kentucky' and matched independently by usacarry.com's Kentucky summary) restricts carry only in 'an area of an airport to which access is controlled by the inspection of persons and property' — i.e., the post-screening secure area. Public, non-secure terminal areas are not restricted under Kentucky law for a licensee.

Kentucky has permitless carry (2019); KRS §237.020 also specifically allows a LOADED handgun to be carried in a vehicle if stored in a container/compartment/storage space that was originally installed by the vehicle's manufacturer.

No Kentucky statute prohibits firearms in hospitals.

Kentucky is permitless-carry. KRS §527.020's location restriction is limited to detention facilities; the statute also protects firearms kept in factory vehicle compartments. No rest-area restriction found. Verified against the statute text directly.

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

KRS 237.110(4)(b): applicant must be a U.S.-citizen resident of Kentucky, OR "a member of the Armed Forces of the United States who is on active duty, who is at the time of application assigned to a military posting in Kentucky" (and similarly for a lawful non-citizen resident assigned to a KY posting). No other non-resident path exists.

Ky. Rev. Stat. §527.070(1) bans knowingly possessing/carrying a firearm in a K-12 building, on a bus, or on other school property; no exception exists for concealed carry deadly weapons (CCDW) license holders. Narrow exceptions cover instructional/ceremonial use, board-authorized personnel, and hunting-season activity. Kentucky is permitless-carry, which does not affect this school-specific ban.

No Kentucky-specific firearm-signage criminal statute could be confirmed in this session (attempted fetches of KRS 511.080 and 237.106/237.115 failed). Kentucky's general criminal trespass third-degree statute likely governs but I could not verify its notice requirements from a live source.

KRS § 65.870: no city, county, or urban-county government may occupy any part of the field of regulation of transfer, ownership, possession, carrying, or transportation of firearms.

Kentucky State Police's official CCDW restrictions page lists prohibited locations (police stations, courthouses, schools, etc. per KRS 237.110) and does not include polling places.

No state-level magazine capacity restriction found.

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

No Kentucky state-level restriction beyond the federal NFA process for any category. Suppressors are legal for ownership and hunting under KRS 237.110. No KY statute prohibiting SBR/SBS or machine gun possession was found; civilians may possess machine guns to the extent federal law allows (pre-May 19, 1986 transferable machine guns registered under the NFA) with no added state permit or registration.

Stand Your Ground by statute: Ky. Rev. Stat. §§ 503.050(4); 503.055(3) ("Stand Your Ground"); 503.070(3); 503.080(3) — no duty to retreat.

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

KRS Chapter 237 contains no state-level ban on suppressors; only the federal NFA process applies.

No KRS Chapter 237 ('Firearms and Destructive Devices') provision restricts machine-gun possession beyond federal NFA registration and transfer requirements.

No Kentucky statute analog to a state NFA restriction was found for short-barreled rifles.

No Kentucky statute analog to a state NFA restriction was found for short-barreled shotguns.

KRS 237.040 criminalizes destructive-device or booby-trap possession only when coupled with 'intent to use that device to commit an offense' (or knowledge someone else intends to) -- mere possession of a federally registered destructive device or AOW is not itself criminalized.