Corrections & verification log

The New Jersey page and the duty-to-inform guide said New Jersey imposes no duty to tell an officer you are carrying ("Not required"). That is wrong. Since the 2022 carry law, a permit holder who is stopped or detained while carrying a handgun in public, or with a handgun in the vehicle, must immediately disclose it and display the permit; failing to disclose is a fourth-degree crime (N.J.S.A. 2C:58-4.4(b)). A reader relying on our page could have committed that crime.

Now reads: Duty to inform: required. On any stop or detention while carrying in public or with a handgun in the vehicle, immediately disclose and display the permit.

Source: New Jersey State Police, Concealed Carry Facts & FAQs, §8 Interactions with Law Enforcement (quoting 2C:58-4.4(b)), last reviewed 12/17/2025

The New Jersey page said a Permit to Carry is approved by the chief of police and a Superior Court judge. The judge step was removed by the 2022 carry law; the State Police FAQ and application instructions describe approval by the chief police officer (residents) or the Superintendent of State Police (non-residents) only. A process error, not a carry-rule error — but a stale description of how to apply.

Now reads: Issued by the chief of police for residents, or the New Jersey State Police for non-residents; no court approval step.

Source: New Jersey State Police, Concealed Carry Permit Instructions (resident and out-of-state, 03/03/2026) and Concealed Carry Facts & FAQs

State hub pages grouped honored permits in a way that could drop the condition attached to them. A state that recognises another state's permit only when the holder is a resident of the issuing state could therefore appear to honour it outright. On a site people use to decide whether they may lawfully carry across a state line, an unconditional-looking claim is the most dangerous kind of error we can publish.

Now reads: Recognition is grouped by its full condition, so resident-only recognition is always shown as resident-only

Source: Per-state statutory citations already held against each edge

Fetched all 148 distinct official pages the site cites and checked that each is live and on the subject it is cited for — not merely that the address answers. Reciprocity pages were also checked for the names of the states we say they honor.

Result: Two citations had moved: the Texas DPS reciprocity page (which every Texas reciprocity entry cites) and Wisconsin's concealed-weapon statute. Both now point at the current official page; the Texas list was re-read and again names every state. New Jersey's State Police permit-to-carry page has been withdrawn and its replacement is being confirmed. Twelve pages could not be read by an automated check (bot protection or script-rendered statute sites) and will be read by hand in the quarterly pass.

Audited what the site tells readers and AI crawlers about its sourcing against what the code and data actually do: every source named in the machine-readable files and the methodology page, and every claimed verification step.

Result: No claim rests on a source we do not hold. All 2,550 reciprocity relationships cite the honoring state's own official site and all 148 distinct cited pages are government or allow-listed official domains. The source check now also covers each state's headline citation and issuing authority, which it had not; the guide pages now show the verification-date range of the records they draw on; and the sourcing note for AI crawlers now says that five states are cited to statute rather than an agency page.

Re-derived every recognition count before publication, after finding the tally conflated two different things: a state formally recognising another state's permit, and a state simply allowing permitless carry.

Result: Counts now reflect formal recognition only. Permitless-carry states no longer inflate a recognition count, which would have overstated how portable a permit is.

Completed the inbound recognition edges for four states where the data was silent rather than explicit.

Result: Non-recognition is now recorded explicitly as "not honored" instead of being left absent. Silence in a dataset reads as "unknown", and on this subject unknown must never render as permitted.

Hardened the data validator so a claim cannot be published against a non-government source, and specifically blocked a large commercial concealed-carry site from being cited.

Result: The build fails rather than publishes if a jurisdiction's claim rests on anything but a primary government source. Commercial reciprocity maps are frequently out of date and are not evidence.