{"id":176480,"date":"2024-03-02T00:15:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T05:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=176480"},"modified":"2024-03-02T00:15:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T05:15:32","slug":"yost-shares-annual-ccw-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/03\/02\/yost-shares-annual-ccw-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Yost shares annual CCW report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Attorney General Dave Yost has issued Ohio\u2019s annual report on concealed handgun licensing, showing that a total of 90,582 permits were issued in the state in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the statistics reported to the Attorney General\u2019s Office, county sheriffs issued 15,581 new licenses and 75,001 renewals. Permit holders who wish to renew their licenses must do so every five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On June 13, 2022, changes to the law allowed qualifying Ohioans to carry a concealed handgun without a permit while also preserving the permitting system.<\/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>The Van Wert County Sheriff\u2019s Office issued 22 concealed-carry licenses in 2023, along with 264 renewals. Four licenses were suspended.<\/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, click <a href=\"https:\/\/OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov\/ConcealedCarry\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; Attorney General Dave Yost has issued Ohio\u2019s annual report on concealed handgun licensing, showing that a total of 90,582 permits were issued in the state in 2023. According to the statistics reported to the Attorney General\u2019s Office, county sheriffs issued 15,581 new licenses and 75,001 renewals. Permit holders who [&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-176480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 20:43:26","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\/176480","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=176480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176481,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176480\/revisions\/176481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}