Firearms And Weapons
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to study gun violence in the Commonwealth. [SCR-143]
Direct the Legislative Research Commission staff to study the causes of gun violence in Kentucky; require a report to be submitted to the Interim Joint Committees on Judiciary and Health Services by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. Keturah Herron
To Judiciary (s) on 03/11/2025
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AN ACT relating to a sales and use tax holiday. [HB-804]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to establish a 10-day sales and use tax holiday from April 5 to April 15 each year to exempt firearm safety devices and firearm storage devices; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Fugate
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crisis aversion and rights retention orders. [SB-235]
Establish KRS Chapter 202D and create new sections thereof relating to crisis aversion and rights retention orders; provide limitations on interpretation of the Act; define terms; allow law enforcement officers to petition a court to issue orders when a respondent presents an immediate and present danger of causing serious physical injury to themselves or others through purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm; establish procedures for the filing, review, hearing, service of process, termination, or renewal of the petition and orders; provide
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the restoration of Second Amendment rights. [HB-686]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237, relating to firearms, to define terms; provide that firearm suppressors manufactured in Kentucky shall not be subject to federal law or regulation; require firearm suppressors manufactured and sold in Kentucky to have the words "Made in Kentucky" clearly stamped on them; prohibit the state and local enforcement of a federal statute, order, rule, or regulation that does not exist under state law and that purports to regulate a firearm suppressor; allow citizens to report evidence of specified state and local
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Bray
To Judiciary (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the restoration of Second Amendment rights. [HB-667]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237, relating to firearms, to define terms; provide that firearms manufactured in Kentucky shall not be subject to federal law or regulation; require firearms manufactured and sold in Kentucky to have the words "Made in Kentucky" clearly stamped on them; prohibit the state and local enforcement of a federal statute, order, rule, or regulation that does not exist under state law and that purports to regulate a firearm; allow citizens to report evidence of specified state and local entities' noncompliance to the
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Sponsored by: Rep. T.J. Roberts
To Judiciary (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the establishment of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. [SJR-70]
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force to study the causes of and examine ways to prevent gun violence; establish task force membership; require the task force to meet at least once per month during the 2025 Interim; require the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. Keturah Herron
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION urging the United States Congress to allow users of medical cannabis to own firearms. [HR-48]
Urge the United States Congress to allow users of medical cannabis to own firearms.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derek Lewis
To Judiciary (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons. [SB-75]
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.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Floor Amendments (1), (2), (3-title), (4), (5), (6-title) And (7) Filed on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms. [HB-581]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define "safe storage depository" and require an owner or custodian of a firearm to store the firearm in a safe storage depository or render the firearm incapable of being fired using a gun-locking device; require an owner or other person lawfully in possession of a firearm or any person who sells ammunition to report the loss or theft of the firearm or ammunition to a law enforcement agency; amend KRS 237.990 to establish penalties for violations.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Office of Safer Communities, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-515]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to establish the Office of Safer Communities within the Office of the Governor; amend KRS 12.020 and KRS 12.023 to conform; appropriate $3,000,000 in fiscal year 2025-2026 to fund the office; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to confiscated firearms. [SB-144]
Amend KRS 16.220, relating to firearms confiscated by law enforcement, to provide that firearms which were used in a homicide be destroyed; provide that firearms in the possession of the Department of Kentucky State Police may be destroyed if they have been defaced, are contaminated by hazardous material, unsafe to discharge, or upon request of an innocent owner; amend KRS 500.090, relating to forfeiture of property in criminal cases, to require local law enforcement agencies to destroy firearms that have been used in a homicide; require that all
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Received In House on 03/06/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prohibiting the possession and transfer of assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices. [HB-410]
Amend KRS 527.010 to define "assault weapon" and "large capacity ammunition feeding device"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to criminalize possession and transfer of large capacity ammunition feeding devices; criminalize the possession and transfer of assault weapons; provide exceptions for large capacity ammunition feeding devices and assault weapons lawfully owned prior to the effective date of this Act; amend KRS 237.104 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
To Judiciary (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to waiting periods for sales of firearms. [HB-409]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require a waiting period of five business days between the sale and transfer of a firearm; amend KRS 237.990 to establish a penalty for a violation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
To Judiciary (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to risk protection orders. [HB-375]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; allow enumerated persons to petition a District Court to issue an order prohibiting a person from purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm if the person is or has been diagnosed with or treated for a mental condition that causes or is likely to cause impairment in judgment, perception, or impulse control to an extent that presents an unreasonable risk to public health, safety, or welfare if the person were in possession or control of a firearm; establish that a violation of an order
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Sponsored by: Rep. Beverly Chester-Burton
To Judiciary (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the destruction of confiscated firearms. [HB-334]
Amend KRS 16.220 to require the destruction of confiscated firearms; amend KRS 45.777, 147A.002, 500.090, and 500.093 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the United States Congress to allow users of medical cannabis to own firearms. [HCR-19]
Urge the United States Congress to allow users of medical cannabis to own firearms.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derek Lewis
Withdrawn on 02/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to background checks on the sale or transfer of firearms. [HB-331]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require background checks for private firearms sales and transfers; amend KRS 237.990 to establish a penalty for violations.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to gun safety for children. [HB-332]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to make it a crime to unlawfully store a firearm; establish elements of the crime for recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class A misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class D felony; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Dre Gun Safety Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Beverly Chester-Burton
Withdrawn on 02/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms possession by domestic abusers. [HB-330]
Amend KRS 527.010 to define "domestic abuse offense," "domestic violence protective order," and "physical force"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to create the crimes of possession of a firearm by a convicted domestic abuser and possession of a firearm by the subject of a domestic violence protective order; require the surrender of firearm by individuals subject to protective orders or convicted of specified crimes; amend KRS 403.740 and 456.060 to require courts to inform the subject of a domestic violence order or an interpersonal protective
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms. [SB-105]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define "safe storage depository" and require an owner or custodian of a firearm to store the firearm in a safe storage depository or render the firearm incapable of being fired using a gun-locking device; require an owner or other person lawfully in possession of a firearm or any person who sells ammunition to report the loss or theft of the firearm or ammunition to a law enforcement agency; amend KRS 237.990 to establish penalties for violations.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/07/2025