Here is part of an article from the Sinclair Broadcast Group and WJLA in Washington, DC that quoted John Lott (both from his article at Fox News and the reporter interviewing him): . . . “Army regulations are very clear stating that personnel cannot have firearms...
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CPRC in the New York Daily News: “Chattanooga shooting renews debate over military gun-free zones”
John Lott was interviewed for a news story in the New York Daily News: . . . Even if soldiers couldn't have ended Muhammed Youssef Abdulazeez's attack as he ambushed them from a car, the sight of weapons could have deterred him, John R. Lott Jr., president of the...
CPRC interviewed by Real Clear Policy: “The Rise of Concealed Carry” UPDATE: Drudge Report Covers our results!
Courtney Such, with Real Clear Policy, interviewed John Lott. Their discussion starts here: How many people are licensed to carry concealed guns in your state? The Crime Prevention Research Center has released a paper with the numbers, finding that the number of...
CPRC at Fox News: “Chattanooga shootings: Why should we make it easy for killers to attack our military?”
John Lott's latest piece at Fox News starts this way: Thursday saw yet another tragic attack in a gun-free zone. Four Marines were murdered. Others were injured. Watching the coverage on television Thursday, it was hard to ignore the gun-free zone sign on the front...
CPRC Research in the News: Fox News, Washington Times, Hot Air, and others
A Fox News article titled "Concealed-carry handgun permits soar as murder rate drops, study claims" has this report on our new study: A report from a prominent economist finds that the number of permits to carry concealed handguns has skyrocketed by 178 percent in the...
Chattanooga Shooting at Marine Recruiting Office at yet another attack at a Gun-free Zone
The gun-free zone sign is from the front of the recruiting station in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Army regulations are very clear saying that you cannot have firearms during one's official duties (see Para 2-6b). It should be the same across all branches. Here are...
New Study: Over 12.8 million concealed handgun permits, last year saw by far the largest increase ever in the number of permits
The new report is available here. Reports for other years including 2016 can be viewed here. Part of the executive summary is shown here: Since President Obama’s election the number of concealed handgun permits has soared, growing from 4.6 million in 2007 to over...
CPRC on KSRO AM/FM radio to discuss “Murder Rates Down, Concealed Gun Permits Up”
John Lott talked to the KSRO Morning News team (covering Sonoma County, California) to discuss the latest research on concealed handguns on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 from 11:32 to 11:40 AM EDT
With Maine, ten states no longer require concealed handgun permits in all or virtually all of the state
Last Wednesday, Maine Gov. Paul LePage signed into law a bill to eliminate the concealed gun permit requirement in Maine. Permit requirements also ended in Kansas and Mississippi on July 1st. That raises the total of states that don't require permits anywhere in the...
CPRC at the Daily Caller: “Why Background Checks Couldn’t Stop Dylan Roof”
John Lott's latest piece at the Daily Caller discusses the FBI's announcement that mistakes were made in the background check for his gun purchase. His piece starts this way: The FBI says that the federal background check system for guns should have stopped Dylann...
CPRC on WJR radio to discuss research on guns and crime
John Lott talked to Frank Beckman about new claims and here on guns and crime (Thursday, July 9, 2015, 10:45 to 10:54 AM).
Evaluating new research “Firearm Ownership and Violent Crime in the U.S.: An Ecological Study” By Monuteaux, Lee, Hemenway, Mannix, Fleegler
Live Science describes a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine this way: Monuteaux and his colleagues wanted to test whether increased gun ownership had any effect on gun homicides, overall homicides and violent gun crimes. They chose firearm...