Skip to Main Content
Last updated .

In 2012, Kentucky enacted a law that created the state law felony crime of “fraudulent firearm transaction.” The law penalizes anyone who knowingly:

  • Solicits, persuades, encourages, or entices a licensed dealer or private seller of firearms to transfer a firearm under circumstances which the person knows would violate federal or state law;
  • Provides to a licensed dealer or private seller of firearms what the person knows to be materially false information with intent to deceive the dealer or seller about the legality of a transfer of a firearm; or
  • Procures another to engage in such conduct.1

“Materially false information” means information that portrays an illegal transaction as legal or a legal transaction as illegal.2

Kentucky has no other laws aimed at firearms trafficking.

MEDIA REQUESTS

Our experts can speak to the full spectrum of gun violence prevention issues. Have a question? Email us at media@giffords.org.

Contact

 . 

  1. Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 527.090(2).[]
  2. Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 527.090(1)(b) . []