The piece by Joel Rosenblatt notes the comparison our recent study made between the explosion in concealed handgun permits and dropping murder rates: Gun control advocates say that math is dangerous, because without stringent permitting, the odds go up that guns will...
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CPRC in the Brown University Daily Herald on the University of Rhode Island move to arm campus police
The article in the Brown Daily Herald discussed our recent study that college age permit holders are extremely law-abiding: But John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, said he supports URI’s decision. “It’s hard for me to fathom why people...
CPRC discussed in new Forbes article: “How Bloomberg’s Million-Dollar Desire For Gun Control Is Backfiring”
The article today in Forbes starts this way and is highly recommended: With the midterms just over a month away New York City’s former mayor Michael Bloomberg is spending at least $50 million to make his gun-control agenda part of this election. His gun-control group...
CPRC at the State Policy Network conference in Denver
DC handgun regulations look likely to be most restrictive concealed carry law in country
A copy of DC's proposed concealed handgun law is available here: License to Carry a Pistol Temporary Amendment Act of 2014. The training requirement is at least as restrictive as Illinois, with "at least 16 hours of training," two hours of which are range time. The...
CPRC at the Utah State Sheriff’s Association Meeting in St. George, Utah
John Lott will be speaking for two hours starting at 3:15 PM MDT in the main auditorium at the Utah State Sheriff's Association Meeting on Tuesday.
Responding to the Washington Post’s “More guns, less crime? Not exactly”
Emily Badger had a post on concealed carry laws in the July 29th Washington Post claiming that concealed handgun laws have not reduced violent crime rates. Among the claims in the piece where: "That sort of gets lost on people," Webster says, "because the way this...
CPRC on Voice of Russia to discuss murder rates in Russia and US and the Don Spirit case in Florida
John Lott was on the Voice of Russia to discuss gun violence in the United States, particularly the case of 51 year old Don Spirit who killed his daughter and grand children (also here). Comparable homicide rates in the Russian Federation and the US are available from...
More evidence that deterrence works: Since Apple’s “Activation Lock” debuted, thefts of iPhones has gone done even while thefts of Android phones has increased
Click on figures to make them larger. Lowering the return to crime makes it less likely to occur. In these diagrams, there are several possibilities about what is happening: either thieves are switching from the iPhone to Samsung devices, simply deterring criminals...
In little noticed change, Obama administration collecting data on race, ethnicity of gun buyers
From the Washington Times: With little fanfare, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in 2012 amended its Form 4473 — the transactional record the government requires gun purchasers and sellers to fill out when buying a firearm — to identify...
Obama renews call for more gun control
On the one-year anniversary of the Navy Yard shooting, President Obama "called on Americans to renew the push for gun-control legislation": "One year ago, 12 Americans went to work to protect and strengthen the country they loved," Obama said. "Today, we must do the...
CPRC on the new proposed DC Concealed Handgun regulations at the Blaze
From the Blaze: . . . However, Dr. John Lott Jr., Second Amendment expert and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told TheBlaze the proposed law is not a huge win for gun rights. Lott said politicians in Washington, D.C., are considering passing a “may...