Joseph E. Olson has been a Professor of Law (now Emeritus) at MitchellHamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota since 1974. He attended Duke Law School graduating with Honors and was selected for the Order of the Coif. He has an interest in firearms...
While CPRC founder Dr. John Lott is away on temporary leave, the Board of Directors of the Crime Prevention Research Center has selected Dr. Robert F. Turner to serve as the Center’s second President effective October 12, 2020. Dr. Turner holds both professional (JD)...
Dr. John Lott was on Kansas City's KCXL Radio to discuss Democrats ending the Filibuster to "Gun Control Myths: How politicians, the media, and botched 'studies' have twisted the facts on gun control." (Wednesday, September 16, 2020 from 1:05 to 2:00 PM) KCXL Radio...
The CPRC's Nikki Goeser has a piece in the Missoulian newspaper. I started high school back in 1991, before “active shooter” drills for students and teachers existed. Never did I imagine that we as a society would have to deal with such evil in the world and our...
Dr. John Lott and CPRC Board Member Joe Olson have an new op-ed piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune that discusses what is at For months, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Senate Democrats have talked about eliminating the filibuster. With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about the surge in gun sales and why that increase is justifiable. (Wednesday, September 16, 2020, from 8:35 to 8:43 AM)
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Wall Street Journal. When President Trump introduced Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, he warned: “The coming years will decide the survival of our Second Amendment.” He’s right. Joe Biden’s campaign website contains a...
Fox News has a news story on our newest annual report on the number of concealed handgun permits. A new report reveals that despite some states getting tougher on gun control, the number of Americans with permits to carry concealed firearms has spiked in recent...
Dr. John Lott talked to Gregory Young on his national radio show on the USA Radio Networks, covering 50 radio stations. They talked Amy Coney Barrett views on Constitutional amendments, focusing on Barrett's dissent in Kanter v. Barr. They also discussed Lott's new...
There are 8.4 million motorcycles in the US, and they account for about 4,614 deaths and 196,974 Nonfatal Emergency Department Visits. When you compare that there are about 400 million guns in the US, the rate of both deaths and injuries from motorcycles is...
Less than 1% of guns are ever used to cause harm. There are several factors that have to be looked in making this calculation. 1) There were 279,417 gun crimes reported to police in 2019...
With closely contested elections in many states where self-defense is an important issue, gun control advocates are pretending to be pro-self-defense organizations that support Democrats. Unfortunately, in a number of close races, these fraudulent organizations have...