Firearms And Weapons
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local firearms control ordinances. [HB-329]
Amend KRS 65.870 to allow local governments to enact ordinances regulating firearms; amend KRS 65.1591 and 237.115 to conform.
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AN ACT relating to a firearm safety course credit. [HB-214]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to define terms; establish a refundable credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, but before January 1, 2030, for individuals who enroll in a firearm safety course during the taxable year; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide for the ordering of the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to confiscated firearms. [SB-92]
Amend KRS 16.220 to permit the destruction of confiscated firearms; require destruction if the firearm was used in the commission of a violent offense; amend KRS 500.090 and 500.093 to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the forensic processing of firearms. [SB-95]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to require law enforcement agencies to transmit information to national law enforcement databases about firearms collected during criminal investigations.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sales and use tax exemptions for firearm-related items. [HB-281]
Amend KRS 139.010, relating to sales and use taxes, to define "ammunition," "antique firearm," "body armor," firearm," "firearm muffler or silencer," "firearm-related accessory," "firearm safety course," "firearm safety device," and "firearm storage device"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt ammunition, antique firearms, body armor, firearms, firearm-related accessories, firearm safety courses, firearm safety devices, firearm storage devices, noise cancelling ear protection, and admissions or program fees related to certain firearm-related activities;
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to airport police. [HB-234]
Amend KRS 16.220, relating to confiscated firearms sold at public auction, to add airport safety and security department to the list of agencies that are eligible to receive grant funds from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security for purchasing body armor and other necessary equipment.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons. [HB-204]
Repeal KRS 237.115, which interprets the application of the license to carry concealed deadly weapon statute as permitting postsecondary facilities, local governments, and units of state government to limit concealed carry in governmental buildings; amend KRS 150.172, 237.110, and 527.020 to conform; amend KRS 237.110 to no longer prohibit the carrying of concealed deadly weapons in schools and specify that the prohibition of carrying concealed deadly weapons in airports is limited to areas controlled by the Transportation Security Administration;
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to an income tax credit. [HB-176]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to allow a refundable income tax credit for the firearm making tax, firearm special occupational tax, or firearm transfer tax for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, but before January 1, 2030; amend KRS 141.0205 and 131.190 to order the credit.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging Kentucky's congressional delegation to support amending the Gun Control Act of 1968 to allow users of medical cannabis to exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms. [SCR-23]
Urge Kentucky's congressional delegation to support amending the Gun Control Act of 1968 to remove the firearms restrictions on users of medical cannabis.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons. [HB-139]
Amend KRS 237.109 to lower the age requirement for carrying a concealed and deadly weapon from 21 to 18; amend KRS 237.110 to conform; make technical corrections.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency. [HB-124]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define "assault weapon," "large capacity ammunition feeding device," and "seller of ammunition"; require background checks for private firearms sales; require reporting to law enforcement of firearm and ammunition thefts and losses; require the safe storage of firearms; require the Department of Kentucky State Police to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the licensing of persons to possess handguns and assault weapons, the registration of handguns and assault weapons, and the logging of firearms
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to gun safety for children. [HB-120]
Amend KRS 527.010 to define "securely locked container" and make technical corrections; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit unlawful storage of a firearm; establish elements of the crime as recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class B misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class A misdemeanor; provide that an affirmative defense exists if a minor obtained the firearm through the minor's unlawful entry; provide that the Act may be cited as the
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION urging the General Assembly to oppose the adoption of a "Red Flag" law, or any legislation intended to infringe upon a law-abiding citizen's right to keep and bear arms as afforded by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. [HR-9]
Urge the General Assembly to oppose the adoption of a "Red Flag" law or other legislation infringing upon the right to keep and bear arms.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms. [HB-83]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237, relating to firearms, to define "red flag law"; prohibit police department and judicial enforcement of red flag laws.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to civil liability of a parent or guardian. [HB-55]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish civil liability against a parent, guardian, or other person legally responsible for a minor if the minor causes the injury or death of another by the use of a destructive device, explosive, firearm, or other deadly weapon; provide limited exemptions; amend KRS 411.155 to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prohibiting the enforcement of a federal ban or regulation of firearms. [HB-82]
Amend KRS 237.105, relating to state and local enforcement of federal bans on firearms on or after January 1, 2021, to change the definition of "federal ban" to mean a federal law, executive order, rule or regulation that is enacted, adopted, or becomes effective on or after December 15, 1791.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to target shooting. [HB-93]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; provide that a person shall not target shoot carelessly, recklessly, or without regard for the safety of any person, or in a manner that endangers or is likely to endanger any person, pet, livestock, wildlife, or property; provide exceptions for target shooting at a recreation facility or in an area with an earthen backstop; establish a violation as a Class A misdemeanor.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapon licenses. [SB-348]
Amend KRS 237.140 to require retired peace officers to complete the firearms qualification to a carry a concealed deadly weapon once every five years.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local firearms control ordinances. [HB-716]
Amend KRS 65.870 to allow local governments to enact ordinances regulating firearms; amend KRS 65.1591 and 237.115 to conform.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-796]
Amend KRS 527.010 to define "assault weapon," "large capacity ammunition feeding device," and "permanently inoperable"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to criminalize possession and transfer of unregistered large capacity ammunition feeding devices; establish a large capacity ammunition feeding device registration program under the Department of Kentucky State Police; authorize a trust and agency account; criminalize the possession and transfer of assault weapons; amend KRS 237.104 to conform; APPROPRIATION.