Last Wednesday, Maine Gov. Paul LePage signed into law a bill to eliminate the concealed gun permit requirement in Maine. Permit requirements also ended in Kansas and Mississippi on July 1st. That raises the total of states that don't require permits anywhere in the...
Month: July 2015
CPRC at the Daily Caller: “Why Background Checks Couldn’t Stop Dylan Roof”
John Lott's latest piece at the Daily Caller discusses the FBI's announcement that mistakes were made in the background check for his gun purchase. His piece starts this way: The FBI says that the federal background check system for guns should have stopped Dylann...
CPRC on WJR radio to discuss research on guns and crime
John Lott talked to Frank Beckman about new claims and here on guns and crime (Thursday, July 9, 2015, 10:45 to 10:54 AM).
Evaluating new research “Firearm Ownership and Violent Crime in the U.S.: An Ecological Study” By Monuteaux, Lee, Hemenway, Mannix, Fleegler
Live Science describes a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine this way: Monuteaux and his colleagues wanted to test whether increased gun ownership had any effect on gun homicides, overall homicides and violent gun crimes. They chose firearm...
Domestic Violence and Guns: Woman uses gun to defend herself against boyfriend
New Orleans, Louisiana, July 7, 2015 A New Orleans man was shot by his girlfriend in self-defense after he strangled and beat her inside her Harvey apartment in the early morning hours of July 4, according to arrest records. Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Charles...
Within just a few hours, concealed Handgun Permit Holders Defend Themselves in Nashville, TN; Birmingham, AL; and Richland, SC
Nashville, TN, July 6, 2015 . . . . 74-year-old Larry Dean Claybaker was getting into his car at the intersection of Lafayette Street and Fairfield Avenue when two teens tried to rob him around 10 p.m. The teens allegedly took his cellphone and told him to get out of...
CPRC at Fox News: “Lynne Russell, ex-CNN anchor, and her husband are alive thanks to a gun”
John Lott has a new piece at Fox News on Lynne Russell and her husband defending themselves with a gun. Lynne Russell and her husband, Chuck de Caro, believe they would be dead if she hadn’t been carrying a gun. Late Wednesday night, Russell was forced at gunpoint...
CPRC on WMAL Mornings on the Mall to discuss the Obama Administration Report on Stopping Terrorist Attacks on Military Bases
John Lott talked to Larry O'Connor and retired gunnery Sargent Jessie Jane Duff about the possibility of another mass public shooting at the Washington Navy Yard (Thursday, July 2nd, 2015 from 8:40 to 8:45 AM). Lott primarily focuses in on the Obama administration...
Concealed carry permit holder stops late night armed robber at Albuquerque Hotel
This case is getting some attention because Lynne Russell was such a public figure for so long. But these types of dramatic stories, where as Russell says that her husband's fast actions clear "saved her life," are hardly unusual (see also here). From Fox News: . ....
California’s Attorney General responds to CPRC’s Amicus Brief in 9th Circuit case fighting to end California’s 10-day waiting period for those who already own guns
At the beginning of June, the Crime Prevention Research Center filed an Amicus Brief in the 9th Circuit case fighting to end California’s 10-day waiting period for those who already own guns. The California Attorney General just filed a response brief on Tuesday where...