Kansas law prohibits possessing, manufacturing, causing to be manufactured, selling, offering for sale, lending, purchasing or giving away any cartridge which can be fired by a handgun and which has a plastic-coated bullet that has a core of less than 60% lead by weight.¹

Kansas law doesnot:

• Impose a minimum age for the purchase or possession of ammunition (although federal law applies);

• Prohibit individuals ineligible to possess firearms under state law from possessing ammunition;

• Require sellers of ammunition to maintain a record of the purchasers;

• Require a license for the purchase or possession of ammunition; or

• Require a license to sell ammunition.

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1. Kan. Stat. Ann. § 21-6301(a)(6).[↩]