Wyoming

Wyoming has never required a permit for open carry; Wyo. Stat. §6-8-104 governs only concealed carry, which itself became permitless for residents in 2011 and nonresidents in 2017.

Wyoming used to explicitly ban carry at 'any place where persons are assembled for public worship' without the written consent of the chief administrator, but that provision was repealed by 2018 Wyoming HB 141, effective July 1, 2018. Since then Wyoming has no state restriction on carrying in places of worship; it is governed by ordinary property-owner discretion.

No Wyoming statute restricting carry-permit holders in bars/restaurants by location surfaced in a secondary summary's list of prohibited places, but that is silence in a tertiary source, not a confirmed primary-source reading of the full Wyoming code. Marked conditional rather than a confirmed yes.

Wyoming has statewide permitless carry for qualifying residents 21+ (since 2011, one of the earliest constitutional-carry states), alongside a concealed firearm permit (issued by DCI) usable by non-residents. No boat/vessel/waterway restriction was found in Wyoming carry law in this research.

W.S. §6-8-104(t) bans carrying into a law-enforcement facility (absent consent), a detention facility, and a courtROOM specifically (with a judge's-discretion exception) — it does not ban the rest of a courthouse building. Effective 7/1/2025, the 'Wyoming Repeal Gun Free Zones Act' (W.S. §6-8-105) affirmatively states permit and permitless carriers MAY carry into any meeting of a governmental entity, any meeting of the legislature, and 'any public building not otherwise prohibited under W.S. 6-8-104(t)' — meaning a DMV office, city hall, and the non-courtroom parts of a courthouse are explicitly allowed by statute; only the actual courtroom itself is off-limits.

House Bill 172, the "Repeal Gun-Free Zones Act" (2025), lets holders of a valid Wyoming concealed carry permit carry concealed handguns in most public university/college campus facilities, but excludes areas serving alcohol (including athletic events), the early-childhood/daycare center, health-services settings, and labs with explosive/volatile materials; open carry and unlicensed carry remain barred on campus. Private institutions are not covered.

Wyoming is a highly permissive constitutional-carry state with no statewide business-signage mandate; carry is presumptively lawful absent a posted sign or a request to leave.

No WY statute requires advance owner consent; general criminal trespass law (Wyo. Stat. 6-3-303) requires notice before presence becomes unlawful (opt-out default). Constitutional-carry state.

usacarry.com's Wyoming summary describes a mid-2025 statutory change: before July 1, 2025, public airports (except secured areas) were among Wyoming's restricted locations for permitless carriers; effective July 1, 2025, Wyoming's expanded permitless-carry law explicitly allows carry in 'public airports, except where federal law restricts carry,' i.e., non-secure areas are now affirmatively permitted. I could not independently load the amended Wyoming statute (W.S. § 6-8-104 or the relevant 2025 session law) to confirm this citation and exact text, so I'm not presenting it as fully confirmed, but it is a specific, dated claim rather than a vague summary.

Wyoming has had permitless carry since 2011 (W.S. §6-8-104), and that right was extended to NON-residents as well as residents effective April 6, 2021 — anyone 21+ who is a US citizen or permanent lawful resident and not otherwise prohibited can carry, including in a vehicle, with no permit. I could not get a clean fetch of the raw wyoleg.gov statute text this session (PDF/site errors), so this rests on Wikipedia's summary of the law and its 2021 amendment.

Wyo. Stat. §6-5-209 bars bringing a deadly weapon into 'the state hospital' (a specific state-operated facility) except as authorized by the person in charge. Hospitals that are NOT that specific state-operated, licensure-exempt facility have no statutory restriction. So the answer turns on which particular hospital.

Wyoming is permitless-carry. Its prohibited-place list (law enforcement facilities, detention facilities, courtrooms, on-premises alcohol establishments, school facilities for enrolled students) has no rest-area entry per the secondary summary reviewed; I was unable to independently load the primary statute text (repeated site errors).

Wyoming's concealed carry permit law requires the permit holder to possess the permit and valid ID "at all times when carrying a concealed firearm and... display both upon the request of a peace officer." Reactive display duty; exact subsection of Wyo. Stat. § 6-8-104 not independently confirmed against primary text.

Wyoming DCI's own FAQ describes the optional Concealed Firearm Permit as available to "any Wyoming resident" who meets Wyo. Stat. § 6-8-104. Since July 1, 2021, Wyoming already lets any U.S. resident who may lawfully possess a firearm carry concealed there without any permit — so the state-issued optional permit (useful mainly for reciprocity elsewhere) is resident-only.

Verified against the primary statute text (Wyoming Statutes via the official numbering, cross-checked on Justia's mirror): Wyo. Stat. §6-8-105, titled the 'Wyoming Repeal Gun Free Zones Act,' expressly lists 'any public elementary or secondary school facility' (§6-8-105(c)(ii)) among the places a person carrying under a state-issued concealed firearm permit (issued under §6-8-104(a)(ii)) may lawfully carry concealed. Athletic events are covered too, except where alcohol is sold. A 2024 law (HB 125) lets school district boards adopt rules governing (not banning) employees who carry under this authority. This is one of the most permissive states in the country on this question.

No Wyoming-specific firearms-signage criminal statute is known to me, and I could not confirm the notice requirements of Wyoming's general criminal trespass statute (Wyo. Stat. § 6-3-303) in this session.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 6-8-401: local governments may not restrict/ban the sale, purchase, transfer, or manufacture of firearms or ammunition. Local exceptions limited to neutral zoning, public-safety/riot ordinances, and Game & Fish hunting/trapping rules.

No Wyoming statute found prohibiting firearms at polling places. Based on MAP research; not independently verified against Wyoming's own statute.

No state-level magazine capacity restriction found.

No state ERPO/red flag law. RECENT: Wyoming enacted a 2024 law barring enforcement of any red flag order — including a hypothetical federal one — within the state, with damages liability (up to $50,000 per violation) for state/local actors who enforce one.

Wyoming imposes no state restriction on suppressors, SBRs, SBSs, or machine guns beyond completing the federal NFA process; the Wyoming Firearms Freedom Act and the absence of any state NFA-item ban confirm this, corroborated by secondary NFA-trust/dealer sources. Pre-1986 transferable machine guns are legal once federally registered. The one wrinkle is use-based, not possession-based: Wyo. Stat. §23-3-112 bars taking wildlife with a fully-automatic weapon and adds penalties for suppressor use during a hunting/game violation — hunting regulations, not a possession restriction.

Stand Your Ground by statute: Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 6-2-602(a), (e), (f) (2018 SF89) — no duty to retreat.

No Wyoming statute requires background checks on private firearm transfers. Confirmed via absence from Giffords' UBC list.