Governor signed the constitutional carry bill yesterday. Within Kansas after July 1, do not need to a license to carry concealed.

Quite the big step thanks to the Kansas State Rifle Association and the president Patricia Stoneking. She's a tireless champion.

Yes a very good thing open carry or conceal as you wish.

I shook the Governor's hand two weeks ago and thanked him for his principled Stand. I used your name though Will so if you get a thank you card...

Yup. You will no longer be able to lock up the gang banger for concealing the Mac-9 down his pants. You actually have to wait until he shoots someone.

The law is far from perfect. There are two sides to everything. I wish they would have at least required training.

Don't get me wrong, I like what it did for most, but not all. Great for suburbia and the rural areas, but not so much for Quindaro in KCK. But then again, Quindaro is a DNR zone sometimes anyway.

Will, does the new law also apply to out of state visitors to Kansas?.

450, I would submit that question to the Attorney General's office. The information I have received is that it does also apply to visitors, but I would check real hard. It also removed the restrictions for concealed carry licensing in other areas such as public parking lots, workplace parking lots, etc.

When reading the law, they mainly removed all reference to " as authorized by the personal and family protection act". So it is ASSUMED that since the restriction is removed requiring authorization by the concealed carry act that it is legal for all. But again, I would write the AG office.

Final version of SB 45

Larrys,
Not being able to lock up a "gangbanger" for carrying a Mac 9 down his pants won't change much on the "gangbanger" front. However the law will change the game for the businessman or his wife from Central Kansas walking down the same street with the "gangbanger." That was the goal and is well met.
And Frankly; your "gangbanger" might not be my "gangbanger" and I really don't like prosecution for thoughts. I prefer behavior. If we can be free to be armed, we have to allow others who don't look like us to be armed. Doesn't bother me I assure you. I figured, and was trained, that they were all armed anyway didn't you?
The Training: I am a certified Trainer for the KS CCH program and have been since the law was passed. Put a few hundred through the program. Little gun training was mandated or done. We trained the NRA safety program, the levels of awareness program and watched them shoot 25 rounds from 10 yards in. Only had one person "fail" to qualify and her husband caused that. I would say very few in those hundreds were anything close to "competent to carry and use" by my standards. However in all those years, not a single person I certified has had a problem exercising their right. Also in KS Open carry requires no training. I really don't see very many more people being involved with Carrying guns because of this law, even fewer using them, just less chance of law abiding citizens, like my wife, being stopped from exercising their right to self protection on the occasional chance she decides to carry a gun.
Best regards,
Let Freedom Ring!!