Kansas Concealed Carry Permit

Kansas has NO statute prohibiting an individual who may lawfully possess firearms from building an ordinary firearm for personal use, and NO state serial-number requirement, no state registration, and no state background check or licensing tied to a privately made firearm. The Second Amendment Protection Act (K.S.A. 50-1201 et seq., enacted 2013) affirmatively contemplates private manufacture: K.S.A. 50-1204(a) declares that a personal firearm 'manufactured commercially or privately and owned in Kansas' that remains within Kansas is not subject to federal regulation under the interstate commerce power, and 50-1204(b) declares that imported component parts are not themselves firearms. 'Manufacture' is defined at K.S.A. 50-1203(c) as 'to assemble using multiple components to create a more useful finished product.' ONE STATE MARKING REQUIREMENT EXISTS, and it is a marking, not a serial number: K.S.A. 50-1205 provides that 'A firearm manufactured in Kansas within the meaning of K.S.A. 50-1201 through 50-1211 ... must have the words "Made in Kansas" clearly stamped on a central metallic part, such as the receiver or frame.' The statute attaches no penalty of its own; it is a condition of the SAPA framework. Separately, K.S.A. 21-6306 makes it a severity level 10 nonperson felony to intentionally change, alter, remove or obliterate the maker's name, model, manufacturer's number or other identifying mark on a firearm - that punishes DEFACING an existing marking, not the absence of one on a firearm you built. WHAT YOU MAY NOT BUILD - THIS NARROWED SHARPLY IN 2026. L. 2026, ch. 101 (Senate Substitute for HB 2501, approved 9 April 2026, effective on publication in the statute book) repealed Kansas's state-law bans on both firearm suppressors and short-barrelled shotguns. Section 2 struck the whole of K.S.A. 21-6301(a)(4), which had criminalised 'possessing any device or attachment of any kind designed, used or intended for use in suppressing the report of any firearm', and struck the words 'a shotgun with a barrel less than 18 inches in length, or' from what is now 21-6301(a)(4) (formerly (a)(5)). Section 3 struck the parallel short-barrelled-shotgun language from K.S.A. 21-6302(a)(5). The only prohibition left in those paragraphs is MACHINE GUNS - 'any firearm designed to discharge or capable of discharging automatically more than once by a single function of the trigger' - a severity level 9 nonperson felony to sell, manufacture, purchase or possess, subject to the NFA-compliance exemption now at K.S.A. 21-6301(g). The same act also deleted the old K.S.A. 21-6301(i) safe harbour that had exempted a Kansas-made suppressor meeting the K.S.A. 50-1204 description, which became unnecessary once the suppressor ban itself was gone. In its place the act added sentencing enhancements: new K.S.A. 21-6804(h)(2) and 21-6805(g)(2) raise a nonperson (or drug) felony 'one severity level above the appropriate level for such offense' where the trier of fact finds beyond a reasonable doubt that the firearm used was 'equipped with a device designed to suppress the report of the firearm' or was 'a shotgun equipped with a forend and having a barrel less than 18 inches in length'. So suppressors and short-barrelled shotguns are no longer contraband under Kansas law, but using one to commit a felony now costs you a severity level. CRITICAL FEDERAL CAVEAT - UNCHANGED AND DECISIVE: repealing the Kansas bans does nothing to federal law. Suppressors, short-barrelled shotguns and machine guns remain National Firearms Act items requiring federal registration, and making one without prior ATF approval is a federal felony regardless of what Kansas says. The SAPA's declaration that intrastate-made firearms escape federal law has been rejected by the courts: in United States v. Cox, 906 F.3d 1170 (10th Cir. 2018), the Tenth Circuit held K.S.A. 50-1206/50-1207 do not bar enforcement of the NFA, and the district court held SAPA does not render the NFA unconstitutional (235 F. Supp. 3d 1221 (D. Kan. 2017)) and that reliance on Kansas officials' assurances is no entrapment-by-estoppel defense (187 F. Supp. 3d 1282 (D. Kan. 2016)). Federal law, including ATF's frame-and-receiver rule upheld in Garland v. VanDerStok (2025), governs independently of Kansas law. Do not treat 'Made in Kansas', or the 2026 repeal, as a federal safe harbour.

K.S.A. 50-1204; K.S.A. 50-1205; K.S.A. 21-6301(a)(4), (g) (as amended by L. 2026, ch. 101, § 2); K.S.A. 21-6302(a)(5) (as amended by L. 2026, ch. 101, § 3); K.S.A. 21-6306

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What we could not confirm

• ORCHESTRATOR VERIFICATION, 2026-09-15: the researcher could not render ag.ks.gov (HTTP 403 to its fetch tool and to curl under two user-agents) and marked the AG-side administrative facts as resting on indexed extracts. Three of them have since been read directly off the live page: "processing times are currently 8-12 weeks for both new and renewal applications"; "Effective July 1, 2023, the application fee provided by law is $32.50 payable to the Sheriff of the applicant's county of residence, and the fee to the Office of the Attorney General is reduced to $0"; and "The minimum age to apply for a concealed carry handgun license is 18 years of age". The page also states that renewals require no training, no sheriff submission and no second set of fingerprints. STILL SECONDHAND: the "Provisional" card wording and the approximate $100 course price appear nowhere on that page. Note for future reviewers that ag.ks.gov serves 403 to curl but 200 to Node's fetch, so a 403 from one client is not evidence the page is unreachable.
• The Kansas Attorney General's website (ag.ks.gov) returned HTTP 403 to every automated request on 2026-09-15, for all five pages cited in this record (the licensing page, the FAQs, Out-of-State License Recognition, Resources & Reference Documents, and Instructor Resources). The pages are live - they resolve and are current in search indexes, and the 403 is a bot filter, not a dead link - so the URLs have been kept. The AG-side facts in this record (minimum age 18, the $0 AG fee and $0 renewal fee, the ~$100 course price, 8-12 week processing, the 'Provisional Concealed Carry License' card wording, the no-online-training rule, and the residency limit on recognition) were confirmed from indexed extracts of those official pages rather than from a page I rendered myself. Every guarded figure in this record is independently confirmed from the statute text I did read in full today, so none of them rests on the AG pages alone.
• The Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes website serves a PRE-2026 snapshot of chapter 21. On 2026-09-15 its pages for K.S.A. 21-6301 and 21-6302 carried history lines ending at L. 2021, ch. 94, with no L. 2026 entry, even though the Legislature's own amended/repealed index shows both sections amended by 2026 ch. 101 (approved 9 April 2026). The current text of those two sections in this record is therefore taken from the enrolled session law, not from the Revisor's copy. Anyone re-checking 21-6301 paragraph numbers on ksrevisor.gov will see the old numbering.
• I could not extract text from the kslegislature.gov PDF of Senate Substitute for HB 2501 (it returned unparseable binary). The enacted text I relied on is the Secretary of State's HTML of 2026 Session Laws chapter 101, which preserves the strike-through and insertion markup; I read that markup directly rather than a summary of it.
• The Attorney General's Certified Instructor Directory PDF was labeled '(2-2019)' on the Resources page as of the August 2026 pass, and the direct link the FAQ gives (ag.ks.gov/docs/documents/certified-instructor-directory.pdf) previously returned an error. I could not re-test it on 2026-09-15 because ag.ks.gov blocked my requests. instructorRegistryUrl therefore still points at the stable Resources & Reference Documents page. A separate 'Instructor Resources' page now exists at ag.ks.gov/divisions/civil/licensing-inspections/concealed-carry-licensing/instructor-resources, but I could not read it to judge whether it is the better target. Applicants should call the Concealed Carry Licensing Unit at (785) 291-3765 to confirm an instructor's current certification.
• minAge is reported as 18 because that is the AG's own headline statement and the floor in K.S.A. 75-7c04(a)(3), but Kansas is genuinely two-tier: 18-20 gets a PROVISIONAL license, 21+ gets a STANDARD license. If the consuming schema means 'standard' in the Kansas statutory sense, the correct number is 21. See minAgeNotes. Note that this is the opposite asymmetry from permitlessCarry.minAge, which is 21.
• Kansas's recognition statute defines 'jurisdiction' as 'another state or the District of Columbia' (K.S.A. 75-7c04(c)(2)(B)). Neither the statute nor the AG's reciprocity page addresses permits issued by U.S. territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa). The plain text suggests territorial permits are NOT recognized, but I could not confirm this from an official source and did not include them in the honors list.
• Two official processing-time figures conflict slightly: the licensing page says 8-12 weeks for new and renewal; the FAQ says most initial applications are processed within 60-90 days. The statutory cap of 90 days (K.S.A. 75-7c05(e)) is firm.
• The $32.50 is the statutory amount payable to the sheriff and is stated to cover the cost of taking fingerprints. I found no official indication that any county sheriff charges an additional separate fingerprinting fee, but I could not verify practice in all 105 counties.
• Kansas publishes no official state guidance page specifically addressing privately made / 'ghost' firearms or 80% receivers. My homeManufacture conclusion is drawn from the absence of any prohibiting statute plus the affirmative text of the Second Amendment Protection Act, not from an affirmative state agency statement on the subject. The scope and enforcement of the K.S.A. 50-1205 'Made in Kansas' stamp requirement is untested - the statute carries no penalty clause of its own, and I found no case law or AG opinion applying it to a privately built firearm.
• The 2026 repeal of the state suppressor and short-barrelled-shotgun prohibitions (L. 2026, ch. 101) is very recent and I found no AG opinion, published guidance or case law applying it yet. Its practical effect is limited by federal law in any event: these remain National Firearms Act items, and the Tenth Circuit has already held in United States v. Cox that Kansas's Second Amendment Protection Act does not block NFA enforcement. Do not read the repeal as making an unregistered suppressor or short-barrelled shotgun lawful to build or possess.
• The 'shall-issue' classification is correct as a general matter (K.S.A. 75-7c03(a) says the AG 'shall issue'; AG Opinion 2019-4 says the AG lacks discretion to deny for reasons outside the Act). However, K.S.A. 75-7c05(c)(2) and (e)(2)(A) permit the AG to deny 'for good cause shown' based on a sheriff's voluntary report that the applicant poses a significantly greater threat than the average citizen. I found no data on how often this is invoked.
• Vermont is omitted from reciprocity.honors because Vermont issues no concealed carry permit, not because Kansas declines to recognize one. If Vermont ever begins issuing permits, Kansas's universal-recognition statute would cover them with no change in Kansas law.