The Illinois State Police won’t pursue charges against Illinois residents who didn’t register their weapons that fall under the new law by the January 1st deadline. The ISP says the FOID Portal will remain open and people can submit endorsement affidavits at any time....
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. Prices in the U.S. have been rising across the board, but the increase in airfares has been particularly acute. Part of that is due to a significant pilot shortage. A new report from the Oliver Wyman consulting...
The Iowa Perry High School is under the Perry Community School District. The shooting left two people dead and six injured. It has a very clear firearms policy. The only exceptions for people having guns on school grounds that are listed as: "conducting instructional...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist. . As of Jan 1, Californians are banned from carrying permitted concealed handguns in virtually the entire state. There is no evidence that permit holders have caused problems in California or elsewhere in the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKlVRvj58Vo As the Crime Prevention Research Center has often pointed out, television crime shows seem to think criminals constantly use machine guns to commit crime. Unfortunately, Amazon's Reacher Show is no different (Season 2,...
Dr. John Lott talked to KNRS’s Clark Aposhian about how the media misinforms people on guns and our research comparing crime rates in Republican and Democrat states. (Saturday, December 30, 2023)
California's new concealed handgun law bans carrying guns in 26 places; most public places, including public parks and playgrounds, churches, banks, and zoos, go into effect today. Going into any business that doesn't have a posted sign saying that you can carry,...
Dr. John Lott appeared on Stacy on the Right, a nationwide radio show, to discuss how the mainstream media covers gun control and crime. They has also talked about the university shooting in Prague. (Friday, December 22, 2023, from 10;05 to 10:30 PM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXM8sWHV33I Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Martinez on his TV talk show about the media's biased coverage of crime. (Wednesday, December 20, 2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1BbkuzopTM Season two of Amazon's Reacher has a scene where a gun dealer violates the rules in New Jersey for requiring a license for buying guns because Jack Reacher is bribing him. This fits in with the Biden Administration's theme...
While this is not directly on topic for what we normally post, it does show one of the problems with academic research. The problem is that this likely underestimates the problem because when everyone around you is a leftist, even some leftists will think that they...
The CPRC's annual report on concealed handgun permits has gotten more coverage at Fox News. . . . . Fox News Digital reported earlier this year that as constitutional carry laws expanded to more states across the country, the number of Americans with concealed carry...