Between the end of August and the November election in 2014, the NRA spent $14.7 million. Over the entire election cycle they spent $28.2 million. By contrast, in just two state senate races in Virginia during just the last couple weeks before the election this...
Year: 2015
CPRC on InfoWars: Discussing what gun control laws are being pushed and what problems they will cause
John Lott talked to InfoWars about the push for "universal" background checks (Friday, November 6, 2015 from 1:05 to 2:05 PM). The program is listened to each week by 1.5 million people.
CPRC on Coast-to-Coast AM to discuss recent cases where permit holders have stopped violent crime
John Lott talked to George Noory about a concealed handgun permit holder stopping an armed robbery in Chicago and other similar cases during October (Tuesday, November 3, 2015 from 1:10 to 1:13 AM). George Noory's show is heard by over 2.75 million people.
CPRC IN THE NEWS: WASHINGTON POST, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Raleigh’s WRAL, Pittsburgh’s WPXI TV, and Others
Washington Post, November 3, 2015 One big factor driving this trend? An explosion in the popularity of concealed-carry handgun permits. Data maintained by independent researcher and gun rights advocate John Lott suggests that the number of concealed carry permit...
CPRC in the Orange County Register: “Gun ownership, NRA retain popular support”
John Lott's newest piece in the Orange County Register starts this way: Despite several years of the billionaire former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and others spending hundreds of millions attacking the National Rifle Association, a new Gallup poll...
What gun control advocates bring up when they have nothing else to say, More attacks against the CPRC by gun control advocates
Gun control advocates want to argue that the only reason that people would support gun ownership is because they are getting paid off by gun makers. Shira Goodman, the Executive Director of CeaseFirePA, made this argument in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (on November...
Victim in UC Merced Mass Stabbing now supports Concealed Carry
From Breitbart.com (November 5, 2015): Byron Price, the construction worker who intervened to save a student under attack at University of California Merced on November 4, says he now views concealed carry “differently” and wants to get a permit to carry a gun....
Interview with Brazilian Media over Legislation to Liberalize Brazilian Gun Control Laws
John Lott was interviewed by Gabriel Brust with Portugues do Brasil about the move to liberalize their gun laws (November 2, 2015): With the advancement in the National Congress of the bill repealing the Disarmament Statute in force since 2003, making it less...
21 defensive gun uses by concealed handgun permit holders covered by the news media during October
UPDATED to now include 21 cases in October (there are a couple of other cases where we can't determine if a permit would have been necessary to have a gun, such as a defensive gun use at a business by an employee, that are not included in this list) ORIGINAL POST: We...
CPRC at Investor’s Business Daily: “Mass Incarceration: Tell Hillary Clinton Punishment Matters”
John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily starts this way: It's easy to forget that in 1991 the U.S. murder rate was well over twice what it is today. In a speech last week at Atlanta's Clark University, Hillary Clinton showed she doesn't understand her...
CPRC at the Daily Caller: “The New York Times Keeps Getting Its Gun Facts Shockingly Wrong”
John Lott has a new op-ed at the Daily Caller: Last week, a New York Times editorial shockingly claimed that American concealed handgun permit holders have been responsible for 763 non-self-defense deaths since 2007. The Times editorial cites these numbers as proof of...
CPRC interviewed by Fox News about Concealed Handgun Permit Holder Stopping Robbery in Chicago
CPRC's John Lott was interviewed by Fox News about a permit holder who stopped a robbery in Chicago: . . . The incident could add more fuel to the ongoing debate about whether the proliferation of handguns is responsible for crime or if more guns in the hands of...