Fox News has an article this morning on our new study regarding concealed handgun permits. They even put together the above video for our news release. Concealed handgun permits in the United States soared by 1.83 million since last July, setting a record for the...
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...
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. The most recent and past reports can be...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Hill newspaper on how the media covered this past weekend's Women's March. Here is the beginning of the piece: Gun control advocates keep claiming that guns are only used to kill people and that people should just rely on the...
Going from a reported 2.6 million who attended the march in January to "hundreds" is quite the comedown. One would think that drop in crowd size would be a headline is some of the stories. But if you were looking for such comments in any of the news stories, you...
Dr. John Lott joined Dana on her national radio show to discuss the polling showing that the Women's March doesn't represent women's views on guns as well as the problems with a new study on concealed handgun laws. (Thursday, July 13, 2017, 2:35 to 2:50 PM)
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Hill newspaper about false statements being made by the organizers of the Women's March on the NRA today and the mainstream media. The piece starts this way: The Women’s March protest today at NRA headquarters was partially...
One of the big questions about concealed carry is how frequently permit holders carry their guns. At least 6.5% of the adult population has a concealed handgun permit, but with 14 states allowing people to carry without a permit, it is hard to know how many people...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News about the claim that there is a "women's view" on guns. Is there a women’s view on guns? The organizers of the massive Women's March — which took place the day after President Trump's inauguration — are holding a protest...
In 2013, LA Weekly obtained a list of the 341 concealed carry permit holders in Los Angeles County, California. That is only about 0.0045% of the 7.7 million adults living in the county in 2013. As of January this year, there were only 226 permits, about 0.0029% of...
John Donohue responded to our comments on our website and in an op-ed at Fox News. Below we go through and respond to the points that he raised. Amusingly, the author of the original piece in Michael Bloomberg's "The Trace" emailed Donohue as soon as my comments...
Dr. John Lott talked to George Noory about teachers at K-12 schools getting training to carry concealed handguns. (Thursday, June 28, 2017, 1:05 to 1:08 AM) Coast to Coast AM is heard by over 2.75 million people.