\ From Fox News: A South Carolina teenager left home alone used his mother's gun to shoot and kill a burglar, authorities said Tuesday. Fox Carolina reported that deputies responded to a report of shots fired at a home in Ladson Tuesday shortly before 2 p.m. EST...
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Two armed men break into home while mother is breastfeeding, she is wounded but shot back and caused robbers to flee
North Carolina woman defends herself from two armed men who started firing as soon as they broke into her home. They shot her twice, but she was able to keep her baby safe. Semantha Bunce, 21, a combat medic in the National Guard, was in her Charlotte home...
Gun Control is the Strongest Election Issue for Republicans over Democrats and that is the one topic that they have been getting even stronger on
The new PEW Research Center Poll shows that gun control is the strongest issue that Republicans have over Democrats, and that gap has been growing. And while Democrats have been getting stronger against Republicans on abortion, foreign policy, taxes and terrorism,...
CPRC at Fox News: “Scrapped: Maryland ends bullet ID program after 15 years, $5M and zero cases solved”
John Lott was quoted extensively in a Fox News article about Maryland's decision to scrap its ballistic fingerprinting system. Ballistic fingerprinting was just another way of trying to register guns. State authorities have conceded that the bullet ID program,...
CPRC research discussed by Ben Swann on CBS46-TV in Atlanta
In his report, Ben Swann on the local Fox affiliate in Atlanta, Georgia mentions the CPRC research on the number of permits issued as well as our work on how law-abiding permit holders are.
CPRC talked to Texas Governor Greg Abbott about the danger of Gun-Free Zones and our research “More Guns, Less Crime”
Texas Gov Abbott and CPRC's John Lott talked briefly about the danger of Gun-Free Zones and Lott's book "More Guns, Less Crime" on Wednesday, November 4th, 2015. Gov Abbott was a very strong supporter of both.
Bloomberg spends 1/13th as much money on two state Senate races in Virginia as the NRA spent on all campaigns during the entire 2013-14 election cycle
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...
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...