I've let my Ky CCDW Instructor qualification expire (still keeping by own CCDW of course) but I still keep up with the law and it hasn't changed on most points.
If you know any friendly Ky CCDW instructors (unfortunately the state deliberately ran most individual instructors out of the program a few years ago) one source of a lot of information about Ky CCDW law would be the video tapes that are a required part of the Ky CCDW training program. The state trusts the instructors to present the firearms parts of the training, but requires the legal parts to be presented from official videos. The presentations are a real cure for insomnia but there is a lot of good information. The content was developed by the Justice Cabinet and reviewed by the OAG so it is about as close to gospel as you can get beyond just reading the text of the statute.
Kentucky has no laws about open carry. The state constitution specifically authorizes the state to regulate concealed carry. In writing KY's CCDW law, the legislature extended a very limited authority to local jurisdictions to further regulate concealed carry - although several cities have ordinances that clearly exceed their legal authority, none of those have been challenged in court (at least in part because no one is interested in deliberately getting arrested just to be a test case).
As for carrying in a car in Kentucky, the law gets a little bit strange.
Carry is generally defined as 'on or about your person' so yes, with a CCDW permit you could carry a gun anywhere in your car other than on some other person.
There is also a state law that specifically says a gun in the glove compartment of a car is NOT being carried concealed. Unfortunately, the law did not actually define whether the gun in the glove compartment was not being "carried" or not being "concealed" (an issue of interest to lawyers but mostly of little interest to anyone else). The gun in the glove compartment can be loaded or unloaded and the glove compartment can be locked or unlocked, but it must be the glove compartment of the vehicle as manufactured. The law does not address any other storage compartments such as a console. Also the law is old enough that it specifically refers to the "glove compartment" although I note that most manufacturers no longer actually call it that. Again, there have been no test cases, precedents, or case law to narrow or widen the meaning of the law.
We do have case law in Kentucky stating that for a firearm to be concealed, there must be a deliberate attempt to conceal it -- simply being out of sight does not necessarily make a gun concealed, and simply being visible does not necessarily make a gun not concealed. For example, a gun in a typical strong side hip holster worn under an unbuttoned suit jacket is almost certainly 'concealed' even if it can be seen at some angles but a gun in an SOB holster with no jacket is not concealed. A gun in a gun case is generaly not 'concealed' but a gun in a briefcase generally is. Like many laws where intent is an essential element, there are certainly grey areas and situations where different people, different police officers, and especially different juries may have different opinions.
Another oddity in Kentucky CCDW laws about vehicles is that a property owner can ban concealed carry on their property but that ban does not extend to a weapon inside a CCDW permit holder's car so long as the gun is kept in the car and not displayed. So, if your employer prohibits guns at work (as most foolishly do) and says the ban includes all company property including the parking lot, you can legally leave your gun in your car. You can also carry your gun in your car even if you use the car on company business, but your employers rule would apply outside your car.
One thing to watch out concerning either open or concealed carry in an automobile is that many states have laws and regulations about "hunting" that also address firearms in vehicles completely separately from the assorted 'carry' laws. It may be illegal to carry any loaded firearm in a vehicle in some locations or some times of year under some regulation by the Deaprtment of Natural Resources or Department of Fish & Wildlife or whatever your state calls it.
