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Criminal Record
Prior to obtaining your license, you must provide the sheriff with complete information about your background. There are many criminal offenses that bar you from obtaining your license. There are many laws and conditions that prohibit you from owning a handgun. If you have questions about specifics you should consult an attorney.
The law states that you must not be under indictment, charged or convicted of a felony, a felony that involves the trafficking in drugs or similarly charged with a misdemeanor offense of violence or negligent assault. You may not obtain your license if you have been charged with falsification of a concealed handgun license.
In addition, you must not have been convicted, pleaded guilty, or been adjudicated as delinquent in connection with a crime that involves the illegal use, sale, possession, administration, distribution, or trafficking of a drug of abuse. You cannot have been convicted, pleaded guilty or been adjudicated delinquent for assaulting a peace officer. You must not, within three years of your application, have been convicted, pleaded guilty or been adjudicated delinquent in connection with a misdemeanor offense of violence against a peace officer.
You must not have been convicted, pleaded guilty or been adjudicated delinquent in connection with two or more assaults or negligent assaults within five years of your application. You must not have been convicted, pleaded guilty or adjudicated as delinquent in connection with resisting arrest within 10 years of your application. If you are charged with an offense during the application process, the sheriff can suspend your application until your case is resolved.
The sheriff shall not consider the conviction, guilty plea, or adjudication of an applicant’s sealed records even if those sealed offenses would otherwise disqualify an applicant. If you have questions about sealed criminal records, consult an attorney.
Mental Competency
The law states that you must not have been adjudicated as a mental defective, been committed to any mental institution, be under a current adjudication of incompetence, have been found by a court to be mentally ill subject to hospitalization by court order, and not be an involuntary patient other than one who is a patient only for purposes of observation.
Source OH Attorney General
Residency You must be a legal resident of the United States and an Ohio resident for 45 days before you apply for your license. You must be a resident of the county (or adjoining county) where you apply for at least 30 days. You must also be at least 21 years of age and not a fugitive from justice. Residency for members of the armed forces. You are considered an Ohio resident for purposes of obtaining and renewing a license to carry a concealed handgun if you are absent from the country, Ohio or an Ohio county while complying with military or naval orders as an active or reserve member of the armed forces of the United States and, if prior to leaving this state in compliance with those orders, you were legally living in the United States and were a resident of this state, you, solely by reason of that absence, shall not be considered to have lost your status as living in the United States or your residence in this state or in the county in which you were a resident prior to leaving this state in compliance with those orders, without regard to whether or not you intend to return to this state or to that county, shall not be considered to have acquired a residence in any other state, and shall not be considered to have become a resident of any other state. If you are present in this state in compliance with military or naval orders as an active or reserve member of the armed forces of the United States for at least forty-five days, you are considered to have been a resident of this state for that period of at least forty-five days, and, if you are present in a county of this state in compliance with military or naval orders as an active or reserve member of the armed forces of the United States for at least thirty days, you shall be considered to have been a resident of that county for that period of at least thirty days. Statutory Reference: 2923.125(D)(1)(i)-(ii) allows persons deployed in the military to obtain Ohio concealed carry licenses under certain conditions.