{"id":151894,"date":"2022-03-02T04:31:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T09:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=151894"},"modified":"2022-03-02T04:32:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T09:32:00","slug":"yost-releases-concealed-carry-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/03\/02\/yost-releases-concealed-carry-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Yost releases 2021 concealed carry report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has released Ohio\u2019s Law on Concealed Handguns annual report showing that 202,920 concealed carry licenses were issued in Ohio in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the statistics reported to the Attorney General\u2019s Office, county sheriffs issued 94,298 new licenses and 108,622 renewals. Permit holders who wish to renew their licenses must do so every five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under Ohio law, county sheriffs are responsible for issuing concealed-carry licenses and renewing them, as well as suspending and revoking licenses. The Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office compiles this annual report, as required by law, about the number of licenses issued each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each sheriff must report concealed handgun license statistics quarterly to the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission within the Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office. Ohio county sheriffs began issuing concealed carry licenses in 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about Ohio\u2019s concealed carry laws or to view this year\u2019s report and other statistics, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov\/ConcealedCarry\">www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov\/ConcealedCarry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has released Ohio\u2019s Law on Concealed Handguns annual report showing that 202,920 concealed carry licenses were issued in Ohio in 2021. According to the statistics reported to the Attorney General\u2019s Office, county sheriffs issued 94,298 new licenses and 108,622 renewals. Permit holders who wish to renew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 23:06:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}