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Jan 21, 2018 | Featured

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 11, 2018

The number of Georgians with concealed weapons permits has increased since the gun law was expanded in 2014 to allow people to bring their firearms in government buildings.

There were 750,000 active permits in the state at the end of 2014 compared to 979,006 in May 2017, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center. . . .

CNBC, January 19, 2018, Yahoo Finance UK, January 19, 2018

In December, the House passed a bill that allows licensed “concealed-carry” gun permit owners to take their firearms across state lines. Today, there are more than 16 million concealed-carry permit holders, according to estimates from the Crime Prevention Research Center. . . .

Mountain, Xpress, January 20, 2018

Buncombe County’s increase in concealed carry permits is twice as high as the rate at which concealed carry permits are increasing nationally, says John Lott, founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. The nonprofit’s website says its goal is “to provide an objective and accurate scientific evaluation of both the costs and benefits of gun ownership as well as policing activities.”

In 2016, a record 1.83 million permits were issued nationwide. According to a study by Lott titled, “Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States: 2017,” there are about 16 million permit holders in the United States.

Lott, an influential and prolific but controversial advocate against gun control, has written numerous books and studies on gun-related issues. A Fox News columnist with a Ph.D. in economics, he’s held research positions at several prestigious universities and is regularly cited by the National Rifle Association.

“In recent years, much of the increase has occurred because of the changing demographics of permit holders,” Lott wrote in an email to Xpress. “Permits for women have grown much faster than for men, and for blacks and other minority groups much faster than for whites. You also see increases in people getting permits after most mass public shootings or other terror attacks.” Increased gun ownership and concealed carry permits, he maintains, actually make everyone safer. . . .

Accuracy in Media, January 20, 2018

. . . But John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, has assembled such data. He looked at every prisoner who entered the Arizona penal system from January 1985 to June 2017 and did determine how many of those prisoners were illegal immigrants.

He found illegal immigrants were at least 142 percent more likely to be convicted of a crime than other Arizonans. They tended to commit more serious crimes, serve lengthier sentences and be classified as dangerous more frequently, and they were 45 percent more likely to be members of gangs than U.S. citizens in the system.

“If undocumented immigrants committed crime nationally as they do in Arizona, in 2016, they would have been responsible for over 1,000 more murders, 5,200 rapes, 8,900 robberies, 25,300 aggravated assaults and 26,900 burglaries,” Lott’s report found.

The Post applied the same “majority rules” principle it applies to climate science in reaching its conclusion.

“Almost all the independent research on this question – do immigrants bring more crime? – contradicted Trump in 2015 and continues to do so today as we look at newer studies,” the Post wrote. “One report based on Arizona reaches a different conclusion: that undocumented immigrants do commit crimes at higher rates than U.S. citizens or illegal immigrants. But it’s not scientific to extrapolate Arizona’s figures to form nationwide conclusions.”

What it doesn’t admit is that almost all of that independent research was based on what the researchers – and the Post authors themselves – admitted was incomplete data, compromised by their inability to get to the bottom of which prisoners were illegal immigrants and which weren’t.

Lott comes along, solves that problem and delivers some unpopular conclusions. And the Post’s argument is that you can’t extrapolate from a border state in the crosshairs of this battle. . . .

National Review, January 20, 2018

It should be noted, however, that a study by John Lott, using more recent and comprehensive state data, found that illegal immigrants are far more likely to commit crimes than lawful residents. . . .

South Coast Today (New Bedford, MA), December 30, 2017

Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety claims the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act would “make our communities less safe.” However, the facts are that more than 16.3 million law-abiding Americans have concealed carry permits with more than 1.83 million permits issued this year. John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center reported that violent crimes have fallen at a considerable rate. Lott’s study also found that concealed carry permit holders were actually more law-abiding than the population in general, with permit holders committing crimes at even lower percentages than police officers. . . .

Fox Channel 5 Baltimore, December 11, 2017

The Harford County Sheriff is praising a controversial bill moving through Congress that would let gun owners carry concealed weapons across state lines.

Sheriff Jeff Gahler, a Republican, urged Maryland Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin to vote for the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, calling it “the most important step in the gun rights debate since the ratification of the 2nd Amendment in 1791.” . . .

Gahler said the number of concealed-gun permits has grown from 4.6 million to 12.8 million nationwide since 2007, citing a Crime Prevention Research Center report. He said the report also shows murder rates have dropped by about 25 percent in the same time period.

Democrat Herald (Albany, NY), December 22, 2017; Corvallis (Oregon) Gazette-Times, Dec 22, 2017;

According to a July report by the Crime Prevention Research Center, there are over 16.3 million concealed handgun permit holders in the United States. This was a record 1.83 million increase in permits over the previous year. . . .

Breitbart, January 2, 2018

For example, Breitbart News reported John Lott’s finding that there were 486 accidental gun deaths in 2014, which represented the lowest number of accidental gun deaths on record. And in 2015, the numbers were roughly the same. The Los AngelesTimes reported 489 accidental gun deaths in 2015. . . .

Outdoor Life, December 27, 2017

There are 16.3 million concealed-carry permit holders nationwide, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center, Sixteen million, three hundred thousand divided by 49 equals 332,853 phone calls to each Democrat Senator. . . .

ProPublica, January 4, 2018; NJ Today, January 5, 2018; Salon, January 8, 2018; Boise Weekly, January 6, 2018

The commission heard testimony on alleged voter fraud from one of its own commissioners, Hans von Spakovsky, and listened to John Lott (best known as the author of the book “More Guns, Less Crime”), who advocated that voting authorities run background checks like those employed when buying a firearm. . . .

Ammoland, December 22, 2017

Information collected by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) indicated an unprecedented surge in the number of concealed carry permits, with the largest one-year increase on record occurring between May 2016 and May 2017. The CPRC tracks permit numbers across the country and publishes an annual report on concealed carrying in the United States. As of late last year, the number of Americans with carry permits hit the 15 million mark, and the current estimate of permittees is at 15.7 million – almost double the number from 2011. . . .

Accuracy in Media, January 11, 2018

It dictated, according to John Lott, a scholar who studies the issue, Holder supporting every gun control measure ever put before him and telling a Democrat women’s group he needed to launch a public campaign to “really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.” . . .

NRA-ILA, December 22, 2017

Information collected by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) indicated an unprecedented surge in the number of concealed carry permits, with the largest one-year increase on record occurring between May 2016 and May 2017. The CPRC tracks permit numbers across the country and publishes an annual report on concealed carrying in the United States. As of late last year, the number of Americans with carry permits hit the 15 million mark, and the current estimate of permittees is at 15.7 million – almost double the number from 2011. , , ,

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