Conoy Township has only a little over 3,000 people, but they may be getting some unusual attention. From Lancaster, Pennsylvania's LNP: Conoy Township has a message for criminals who might be thinking about preying on its residents: This is not a gun-free zone. And...
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CPRC in the news over the first court case testing Pennsylvania’s new firearms preemption law
Here is a statement by plaintiff Justin McShane on the Harrisburg court case There was a trial court hearing in Harrisburg this morning on whether a preliminary injunction should be granted in a suit to force Harrisburg to follow state firearm laws. The hearing went...
67-year-old concealed handgun permit holder fatally shoots one of the two men who tried to rob him
An attempted robbery of a 67-year-old black man by two other men occurred in Cobbs Creek Park, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, February 4th (click on the above picture to enlarge). The park is a little west of the Philadelphia Zoo. The police chief says in...
Survivor of the Columbine High School massacre, now a Colorado state legislator, introduces bill to end gun-free school zones
Newly elected state Rep. Patrick Neville is making a bit of a splash. From the Denver Post (picture also from Post): A student who survived the Columbine High School massacre has introduced a bill that would allow anyone with a concealed weapons permit the right to...
11-year-old girl protects herself with a shotgun from two adults who broke into her home
Mlive.com reports on an 11-year-old in Lapeer County, Michigan who was able to protect herself against two home invaders. An 11-year-old girl used the shotgun she normally keeps to go hunting with her father to scare off a robber in her home, police said. The girl was...
Afghan police arming schoolteachers and university lecturers to protect against terrorist attacks
Since the Taliban massacred 150 people at a Peshawar school in December, the Afghan police are teaching teachers how to use guns to protect their students and themselves. The CPRC has recently discussed the benefits of letting civilians rather than uniformed police...
New survey on the views of academic economists who research guns
The CPRC is releasing a new survey entitled: "Economists’ views on guns: Crime, suicides, and right-to-carry concealed handgun laws" (shorter published version is available here). The survey of economists conducted from August 25th to September 12th 2014 found...
Paper on the politicization of the FBI forthcoming in the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Today, March 2015
The paper can be downloaded here or here. The introduction: In a report released last week, the FBI claimed that between 2000 and 2013 there were 160 "active shooting incidents" in public places. Even more worrisome, these attacks increased dramatically from...
Two burglars were thwarted by a University of Central Florida student with a gun
Students also benefit from the option to protect themselves. In the video available here, the male student describes how one of the burglars pointed a gun (what turned out to be a pellet gun) at point blank range right at the student's head. From WESH.com in...
Are guns “more likely to kill you than a car is”? No
The Economist magazine had the headline in mid January: "A gun is now more likely to kill you than a car is." It is a claim that has been repeated over and over again (see Forbes, The Atlantic, Slate (question 9), Vox (also at MSN News), RT, college newspapers across...
CPRC on Frank Beckmann’s Show on WJR, the coming anti-gun push from Bloomberg
CPRC's John Lott was on the 50,000 Watt WJR from 10:50 to 11:00 AM on Friday, January 30th. Steve Gruber was substituting for Frank. Lott and Steve discussed the huge amounts of money that Bloomberg, various foundations, and President Obama are putting into trying to...
One reason that the surveys on gun ownership may underestimate the number of gun owners
We have pointed out the conflicting polls on the percent of population owning guns, but there is a good reason to believe that these surveys have missed any increase in gun ownership because of an increasing distrust that Americans have in telling pollsters whether...