D.C. has been accused by its police union of manipulating crime data to hide violent crimes. Mayor Bowser claimed the manipulation was limited to just one precinct, but this new report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform shows the problem was...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Real Clear Politics. Also covered at Zero Hedge, Lucianne.com, and JohnLocke.org. . Legally armed civilians, we’re told, pose a major danger. They shoot innocent bystanders, justifiably kill others whenever they personally...
A new report from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) on concealed carry in the U.S. reveals that 46.8 percent of Americans now live in “Constitutional Carry” states—there are 29 of them—where no license or permit is required, while Congress is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=illxfSeSM3k CBS's FBI pushes the claim that "Second Amendment Purists" are the real danger (FBI S8 E4 November 3, 2025).
https://youtu.be/mSRArgsIXwg?si=0mT4jjMoDETqRUQ0&t=729 Sorry, the video is bouncing around a fair amount. While the video here is started at Lott's presentation, you can watch Luciano Lara's talk before Lott. Dr. John Lott gave a talk in Brazil on July 5th that...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at The Federalist. . Gun control laws disproportionately harm minorities, women, and the poor — the people who benefit most from being able to protect themselves. _________ In a major shakeup at the U.S. Department of Justice, the...
Wall Street Journal reporter Mark Maremont continues his attacks on people carrying concealed handguns (this titled "The Innocent Bystanders Caught in Deadly Crossfire of Self-Defense Shootings"). Previously we tried writing letters to the WSJ pointing out legal...
A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2024 are available here. . After peaking in 2022, the number of Concealed Carry Permit holders across the United States has declined for the third year in a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYipnWjord8 Understandably, people want to blame someone in addition to the teenager who murdered three people in this episode of CBS' Boston Blue (Season 1, Episode 5, November 14, 2025). How is it possible that the parents didn't...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxa_Orrr_5Q Apparently another TV show doesn’t think the strict gun control in the UK or Belgium is working too well. As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think...
Between 1998 and 2021, there were about 4.8 million denials for gun purchases. There were another 131,865 denials in 2022, 116,587 in 2023, and 110,505 in 2024. The total is about 5.1 million denials. There is a lot of missing information on the number of prosecutions...
If you add up the fees for the Federal Firearms Licensee ($120) as well as the fees for the background check charged by the DC police department ($35) and their registration fee ($13), the total cost of a universal background check is $168. Amazingly, even if one...