Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Real Clear Politics. Also covered at Zero Hedge, Lucianne.com, and JohnLocke.org. . Legally armed civilians, we’re told, pose a major danger. They shoot innocent bystanders, justifiably kill others whenever they personally...
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CPRC in the News: American Thinker, Ammoland, America’s 1st Freedom, Bearing Arms, and more
A new report from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) on concealed carry in the U.S. reveals that 46.8 percent of Americans now live in “Constitutional Carry” states—there are 29 of them—where no license or permit is required, while Congress is...
CBS’s FBI Pushing the Claim that “Second Amendment Purists” are the Real Danger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=illxfSeSM3k CBS's FBI pushes the claim that "Second Amendment Purists" are the real danger (FBI S8 E4 November 3, 2025).
Talk in Brazil 2025 on How to Make People Safer
https://youtu.be/mSRArgsIXwg?si=0mT4jjMoDETqRUQ0&t=729 Sorry, the video is bouncing around a fair amount. While the video here is started at Lott's presentation, you can watch Luciano Lara's talk before Lott. Dr. John Lott gave a talk in Brazil on July 5th that...
At The Federalist: DOJ Lawsuits Against Gun Control Policies Especially Protect The Weak
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at The Federalist. . Gun control laws disproportionately harm minorities, women, and the poor — the people who benefit most from being able to protect themselves. _________ In a major shakeup at the U.S. Department of Justice, the...
Media Bias: How Often Do People Who are Legally Carrying a Concealed Handgun Accidentally Shoot a Bystander? How about the Police?
Wall Street Journal reporter Mark Maremont continues his attacks on people carrying concealed handguns (this titled "The Innocent Bystanders Caught in Deadly Crossfire of Self-Defense Shootings"). Previously we tried writing letters to the WSJ pointing out legal...
Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States: 2025
A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2024 are available here. . After peaking in 2022, the number of Concealed Carry Permit holders across the United States has declined for the third year in a...
CBS’ Boston Blue Claiming Parents Should be Responsible for Violence with a Gun Even if Guns are Locked Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYipnWjord8 Understandably, people want to blame someone in addition to the teenager who murdered three people in this episode of CBS' Boston Blue (Season 1, Episode 5, November 14, 2025). How is it possible that the parents didn't...
More Television Police Show Bias: FBI Fighting Criminals Using Machine Guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxa_Orrr_5Q Apparently another TV show doesn’t think the strict gun control in the UK or Belgium is working too well. As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think...
The NICS Background Check System has Issued 5.1 Million Denials Since 1998, Only 0.1% were Referred for Prosecution and the Conviction Rate is Less than 0.01%
Between 1998 and 2021, there were about 4.8 million denials for gun purchases. There were another 131,865 denials in 2022, 116,587 in 2023, and 110,505 in 2024. The total is about 5.1 million denials. There is a lot of missing information on the number of prosecutions...
The Universal Background Check in DC is $168, to transfer four guns between the same two people at the same time is $672
If you add up the fees for the Federal Firearms Licensee ($120) as well as the fees for the background check charged by the DC police department ($35) and their registration fee ($13), the total cost of a universal background check is $168. Amazingly, even if one...
UPDATE: New York, a Sanctuary state, Released 6,947 Criminal Illegal Aliens, and still has 7,169 Criminal Illegals in Prison, with 148 for Homicide. Illegals’ Share of Prisoners is 3.4 to 4.2 times their Share of NY’s Population. Incarceration costs are well over $1 billion per year.
At the end of this we have added Fact-checks from ChatGPT 5.1 and Grok Expert In April 2025, the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) held 32,469 incarcerated individuals. By November 2025, New York’s jails held another 18,334...











