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: K.S.A. 21-6301(a)(5) makes manufacturing a shotgun with a barrel under 18 inches or a machine gun a severity level 9 nonperson felony, and 21-6301(a)(4) covers suppressors; K.S.A. 21-6301(h) exempts 'any person or entity in compliance with the national firearms act, 26 U.S.C. 5801 et seq.,' so NFA-registered items are lawful in Kansas. CRITICAL FEDERAL CAVEAT: 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 National Firearms Act, 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' as a federal safe harbor.

K.S.A. 50-1204; K.S.A. 50-1205; K.S.A. 21-6301(a)(4)-(a)(5), (h); K.S.A. 21-6306

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What we could not confirm

• The Attorney General's Certified Instructor Directory PDF is labeled '(2-2019)' on the Resources page, and the direct link the FAQ gives (ag.ks.gov/docs/documents/certified-instructor-directory.pdf) returned an error when fetched on 2026-08-10. I therefore cited the stable Resources & Reference Documents page rather than the PDF. The published instructor list may be substantially out of date; 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.
• 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 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 '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.
• I did not independently verify each of the 39 states on the AG's list of states that recognize the Kansas CCHL against those states' own official pages. That list is reproduced only in reciprocity.notes as the opposite direction and is not part of the honors array; the AG itself cautions that it merely 'will attempt to keep the above list current.'