Why this page exists
Most concealed carry reference sites do not tell you when their information was last checked. That is the single most useful thing you can know about a legal reference, because carry law changes through statutes, court rulings, and attorney general directives on no fixed schedule — and a page that was accurate last year may not be accurate today.
So we publish our dates, including the unflattering ones. Every state below shows when we last checked that record against primary sources — and where we have not checked it, the record says exactly that instead of showing a date.
That distinction is not cosmetic. This site previously displayed a review date on 29 records that had never actually been re-verified; the date had been inherited from a wrong project-start stamp. We removed it rather than replace it with a more flattering one, and we added an automated check that now blocks any deploy asserting a review that did not happen. Methodology § 10 documents the rule.
Figures on this page are generated at page load from the same data file that powers every state page, tool, and map on this site. They cannot drift out of step with what the rest of the site says, because there is only one copy of the number.
What a "review" means here
A review means we re-opened the primary sources — the state legislature's published statute text, the attorney general's guidance, the issuing agency's own permit pages, and any controlling court opinion — and confirmed the record line by line. It does not mean we re-read our own page, and it does not mean we checked another reference site. Before we publish a change we require two independent official sources, with the issuing agency's own guidance weighted highest.
A review often produces no change at all. That is still a review, and it still resets the date, because "we checked and nothing had moved" is real information. Read the full methodology →
Verification heatstrip
Every jurisdiction, every month since this site was built. Green means we re-opened the primary sources that month. Pink means we never have — those records were compiled from official sources at build and have not been re-checked since, and they sit at the top because that is where our queue starts.
Timeline
Verification passes and published law changes, most recent first. Every law change links to the official source it was confirmed against.
On the watch list
Changes we are tracking but have not published, because they are not final or not yet confirmed against two official sources. We list them so you know what is moving, and so it is clear that nothing here has been quietly folded into the data.
Every state, by verification date
Sorted oldest first — the top of this table is our working queue.
| State | Status | Last verified | Age |
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