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March 27, 2009
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I have been waiting for this! 
Kansas Concealed Carry Permit Holders Exempt from Redundant Background Check When Purchasing a Firearm
On April 8, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) issued a letter to all Kansas Federal Firearm Licensed (FFL) dealers informing them that a valid Kansas concealed carry permit may be used as an alternative to an inquiry of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) for the purchase or transfer of a firearm.
All individuals who apply for or renew a concealed carry permit must undergo a NICS inquiry. Exempting valid concealed carry permit holders will alleviate the redundancy of having to go through NICS for every firearm purchase or transfer from a gun dealer. This saves dealers and their customers time and decreases the administrative costs of NICS itself. To view the official letter from the BATFE click here.
This victory is the direct result of last session’s NRA-backed Senate Bill 306 being enacted. This monumental reform made a number of significant changes to Kansas’ right-to-carry laws, to not only streamline the concealed carry process, but to meet the federal requirements under U.S.C. § 922(t)(3) and 27 C.F.R. § 478.102(d), which now allow concealed carry permit holders to be exempt from a redundant NICS background check. After the enactment of this legislation, the state legislature sent a letter to BATFE informing them of these changes and requesting a formal review which brought about this recent decision.
Thank you to all those who contacted their legislators and the Governor during the process last year that led to this policy victory.
This alert is posted at: http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?id=6633
January 22, 2008
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That's great news! Hope we're able to do something like that here in Virginia.
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January 24, 2009
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Utah has been operating like that for a while now, I forget when they first enacted it. That's great that Kansas has gotten on board with it.
It only makes sense that if a person has cleared the necessary checks for a CCP, that they shouldn't need to fill out a background check form each time they buy a new gun.
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