Gun violence in Kansas

Kansas has some of the weakest gun laws in the country. Kansas has no law requiring background checks on unlicensed gun sales. State law also allows people to carry hidden, loaded handguns in public without a permit. Kansas’ laws keeping guns away from domestic abusers are incomplete.

401 In an average year, 401 people die by guns in Kansas.

32h In Kansas, there is an average of 32 hours between gun suicide deaths.

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To become a safer state, Kansas can enact a law requiring background checks on all gun sales, repeal its dangerous permitless carry law, strengthen its laws keeping guns away from domestic abusers, and enact an Extreme Risk law.

Kansas Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Statement on Shooting in a Bar Wichita, Kansas

Nine Teenagers Were Shot Over the Course of Several Days of Devastating Gun Violence. Here’s What You Need to Know About the Gun Violence Crisis in Missouri and Kansas.

This week, at least seven teenagers were shot and wounded and two teenagers were shot and killed in St. Louis, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas…

6.10.2021

Kansas Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Condemn Lawmakers for Voting to Override Gov. Kelly’s Veto of Dangerous Bill to Let Teenagers Carry Hidden, Loaded Guns in Public

The Kansas chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, the grassroots networks of Everytown for Gun Safety, released the following statement after the…

5.3.2021

Two Teenagers Were Shot and Killed in Kansas Last Week, Now The Governor is Considering a Bill to Let Teenagers Carry Hidden, Loaded Guns in Public.

Last week, two minors were fatally shot in separate incidents in Kansas. On Thursday night, Emmanuel I. Torres, a 16-year-old boy,…

4.20.2021

Kansas Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Urge Gov. Kelly to Veto Bill to Let Teenagers, People from Other States Carry Hidden, Loaded Guns in Public Following Senate Passage

The Kansas chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, the grassroots networks of Everytown for Gun Safety, released the following statement after the…

4.16.2021

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Nine Teenagers Were Shot Over the Course of Several Days of Devastating Gun Violence. Here’s What You Need to Know About the Gun Violence Crisis in Missouri and Kansas.

Kansas Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Condemn Lawmakers for Voting to Override Gov. Kelly’s Veto of Dangerous Bill to Let Teenagers Carry Hidden, Loaded Guns in Public

Two Teenagers Were Shot and Killed in Kansas Last Week, Now The Governor is Considering a Bill to Let Teenagers Carry Hidden, Loaded Guns in Public.

Kansas Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Urge Gov. Kelly to Veto Bill to Let Teenagers, People from Other States Carry Hidden, Loaded Guns in Public Following Senate Passage

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Nine Teenagers Were Shot Over the Course of Several Days of Devastating Gun Violence. Here’s What You Need to Know About the Gun Violence Crisis in Missouri and Kansas.

Kansas Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Condemn Lawmakers for Voting to Override Gov. Kelly’s Veto of Dangerous Bill to Let Teenagers Carry Hidden, Loaded Guns in Public

Two Teenagers Were Shot and Killed in Kansas Last Week, Now The Governor is Considering a Bill to Let Teenagers Carry Hidden, Loaded Guns in Public.

Kansas Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Urge Gov. Kelly to Veto Bill to Let Teenagers, People from Other States Carry Hidden, Loaded Guns in Public Following Senate Passage

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