Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal: Each year brings a new record increase in the number of concealed handgun permits. The rate of growth in permits among women and minorities has far outpaced growth among white men. The data paint a picture of...
Fox News has a news story about our latest annual concealed carry permit report. FIRST ON FOX: The number of concealed carry permit holders in the U.S. dropped slightly this year, but the number of Americans carrying a concealed firearm has likely increased overall...
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...
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...
Dr. John Lott and Professor Carl Moody, the CPRC's research director, have an op-ed at Townhall. Preface: Last Friday, the National Law Journal ran an op-ed by Lisa Vicens and John Donohue with many errors in it regarding a case that the U.S. Supreme Court...
Fox News has a news story on our newest annual report on the number of concealed handgun permits. A new report reveals that despite some states getting tougher on gun control, the number of Americans with permits to carry concealed firearms has spiked in recent...
A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2019 are available here. UPDATE: Some more recent data is shown at the bottom of this post and shows that the number of permits have increased by...
The Wall Street Journal mentions our research though they don't quite things correct. The error is in the second sentence. The growth in permits came despite states legalizing carrying without a permit, not because of more states allowing it. The number of Americans...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall.com that starts this way: Each year brings a new record increase in the number of concealed handgun permits. The rate of growth in permits among women and minorities has far outpaced growth among white men. The data paint a...
A copy of our newest report is available here. Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2018 are available here. Summary The number of concealed handgun permits has increased for the third year in a row. The figure now stands at over 18.66 million– a 304%...
Fox News has an article on our new research on concealed handgun permits. The number of permits to carry concealed weapons in the U.S. has jumped to more than 17.25 million this year, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center. That’s an increase of 890,000...
The CPRC has just issued our newest annual report on the number of concealed handgun permits in the US. A copy of the report is available for download here. Some updated numbers are shown at the bottom of this post. Past reports can be viewed here. The...