Kansas Concealed Carry Handgun License Requirements

This is taken directly from the CCHL Application form from the Attorney General of Kansas.

Answering ‘no’ to questions 1 through 4 could result in denial of your application.

1. Are you eighteen (18) years of age or older at the time of application?

2. Are you twenty-one (21) years of age or older at the time of application?

3.Are you a resident of Kansas? (Or residing in Kansas while serving on active duty in the military?)

4.Are you a resident of the county where you are applying?

Answering ‘yes’ to questions numbered 5 through 16 could result in denial of your application.

5.Have you fled from a jurisdiction to avoid prosecution for a crime or to avoid giving testimony?

6.Are you under charges, indictment or information (including a diversion agreement) in any court for afelony, misdemeanor, or any other crime?

7.Have you ever been convicted as an adult or adjudicated as a juvenile in any court of any felony crime.See pg. 4 for information relating to felony disqualifiers.

8. Have you ever been convicted in any court of any misdemeanor crime involving domestic violence? Thisincludes convictions for domestic battery, battery, disorderly conduct or others, even if expunged. See pg. 4 for definition of “misdemeanor crime involving domestic violence.”

9.Are you subject to a court ordered restraining order involving an “intimate partner” or child of such a partner?

10.Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance? (Among other instances, this includes: being convicted in the last year or being currently under a diversion for a controlled substance offense; positive drug test in the last year; paraphernalia that tests positive for a controlled substance; admissions of controlled substance use with in the past year.)

11.Have you ever been adjudicated mentally defective? ”

12.Have you ever been involuntarily committed to a mental institution?

13.Are you or have you ever been a “mentally ill person subject to involuntary commitment” or “person with analcohol or substance abuse problem subject to involuntary commitment”?

14.Have you been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions? (This includes beingdismissed by general court martial if served as Commissioned Officer).

15.Are you an alien illegally or unlawfully in the United States?

16.Are you a permanent resident alien residing in Kansas?