12-16,124.   Firearms and ammunition; regulation bycity or county, limitations.(a) No city or county shall adopt anyordinance, resolution or regulation, and no agent of any city or county shalltakeany administrativeaction, governing the purchase, transfer, ownership, storage ortransportingof firearms or ammunition, or any component or combination thereof.Except as provided insubsection (b) and subsection (a) ofK.S.A. 2009 Supp.75-7c11, and amendmentsthereto,any such ordinance, resolution or regulation adopted prior to the effectivedate of this 2007act shall be null and void.

      (b)   Nothing in this section shall:

      (1)   Prohibit a law enforcement officer, as defined in K.S.A. 22-2202, andamendments thereto, from acting within the scope of such officer's duties;

      (2)   prohibit a city or county from regulating the manner of openly carrying aloaded firearm on one's person; or in the immediate control of a person, notlicensedunder the personal and family protection act while on property open to thepublic;

      (3)   prohibit a city or county from regulating in any manner the carrying ofany firearm in any jail, juvenile detention facility, prison, courthouse,courtroom or city hall; or

      (4)   prohibit a city or county from adopting an ordinance, resolution orregulation requiring a firearm transported in any air, land or water vehicle tobe unloaded and encased in a container which completely encloses the firearmor any less restrictive provision governing the transporting of firearms,provided such ordinance, resolution or regulation shall not apply to personslicensed under the personal and family protection act.

      (c)   Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section andsubsection (a) ofK.S.A. 2009 Supp.75-7c11, and amendments thereto, noperson shall be prosecuted or convicted of a violation of anyordinance, resolution or regulation of a city or county which regulates thestorage or transportation of a firearm if such person (1) is storing ortransporting the firearm without violating any provision of the Kansas criminalcode or (2) is otherwise transporting the firearm in a lawful manner.

      (d)   No person shall be prosecuted under any ordinance,resolution orregulation fortransporting a firearm in any air, land or water vehicle if the firearm isunloaded and encased in acontainer which completely encloses the firearm.

      History:   L. 2005, ch. 141, § 10;L. 2007, ch. 166, § 1; May 3.