Honolulu is finally following Hawaii's other three counties (Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii) in issuing concealed handgun permits. After six months or a year, as we have shown in our annual concealed handgun reports, people will realize that all their fears about concealed...
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At Fox New: At Fox News: More Americans legally carrying guns despite slowest increase in CCW permits on record. Number of concealed carry weapon permits continues upward trend despite nearly half of states enacting ‘constitutional carry’ laws.
The Crime Prevention Research Center's latest annual report on concealed handgun permits was covered extensively at Fox News today. Concealed carry permits have increased by 2.3% in 2022 compared to last year, despite nearly half of U.S. states enacting what have been...
Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States: 2022
A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2021 are available here. As the United States is moving into a post-pandemic era, the number of concealed handgun permits has continued...
Federal Judge issues preliminary injunction holding most of New York’s concealed carry law is unconstitutional
On Tuesday, November 8th, U.S. District Judge Glenn Suddaby paused most of New York's new concealed carry law is unconstitutional. Among the parts of the law he paused: proof of "good moral character" and a list of social media accounts and family contacts. He also...
How difficult is it to legally carry a concealed handgun in New Jersey?: “Man can argue he needed handgun because police did not protect him, N.J. court rules”
A young man was beaten twice and shot at because he had helped police solve a crime. He was forced to move and take other precautions to protect himself. But the police said he had not met the “imminent and compelling” emergency standard for carrying a concealed...
At Real Clear Politics: Law-Abiding Gun Owners Ignored by Media, Maligned by Politicians
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics about comments made last week by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams. It was also published in other places such as the Journal Courier (Jacksonville, Illinois). . In...
NYPD finally adopts concealed handgun permit rules to get in step with the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision: Hint, it will be hard to obtain, you will wait a long time to get it, and you can’t really use it anywhere
The fees to get a concealed handgun permit in New York City will still be extremely high. We went on their website on Wednesday, August 24th, after they had issued their new concealed handgun regulations, and the fee for handgun licenses is still $340 for the initial...
At The Federalist: New York Defies Supreme Court With Unconstitutional Gun Permit Laws
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at The Federalist on New York defying the Supreme Court decision in Bruen. The Supreme Court has ruled against arbitrary and unfair permitting processes, but New York officials seem intent on dragging their heels. .New York’s new...
New York Gun Permitting Would Check Social Media: Using people’s speech to determine whether they should be able to have a gun for protection?
New York would require people applying for a handgun license to turn over a list of their social media accounts so officials could verify their ‘character and conduct’ under a bill being considered Friday by the state Legislature. The provision was part of a proposed...
The Lawyers who won the Landmark Supreme Court victory protecting the Second Amendment were told to no longer do such cases or leave their law firm
After the 2020 presidential election, President Trump found that all the best lawyers were forced to not take the cases because their firms gave them the ultimatum: withdraw from representing Trump or withdraw from the firm. Apparently, because they represented...
Supreme Court strikes down New York’s “May-Issue” Concealed Handgun Law, by rejecting the traditional balancing tests, the decision will have a major impact on all gun control laws.
"Because the State of New York issues public-carry licenses only when an applicant demonstrates a special need for self-defense, we conclude that the State's licensing regime violates the Constitution."From the SCOTUS opinion, June 23, 2022. The Supreme Court has...
Published Research: Do Right to Carry Laws Still Reduce Violent Crime?
The CPRC has some new research published in Academia Letters. The research finds statistically significant reductions in murder from the adoption of Constitutional Carry laws (see Table 3). ConclusionLate adopting states issue fewer permits than early adopting states,...