While adopting Constitutional Carry in Idaho means that training is no longer mandated by state law, the Idaho Statesman has some interviews that show that even people who are carrying without a permit still feel the need to get training. However, the benefit of not...
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CPRC in the News: Daily Caller (2), Washington Examiner, Washington Free Beacon, and many others
The Dominion Post (Morgantown, West Virginia), December 18, 2016 Morgantown City Council will once again take aim at determining whether firearms should be allowed in municipal buildings, and if so, who should be permitted to carry them. The issue is among those...
Five Defensive Gun Uses with Permitted Concealed Handguns over just four days, one example of media bias
The fourth case below provides and example of one of the very few defensive gun use cases that gets picked up by other media around the country. It is also an example of media bias in terms of how these cases are covered as the reason it got extensive media coverage...
Review of “The War on Guns” at Breitbart: “The War on Guns will educate you and will then become a reference resource you will turn to again and again”
AWR Hawkins has a review of The War on Guns at Breitbart. If you have ever thought it would be helpful to have a reference book you could flip through to quickly read up on the actual facts surrounding things like background checks, mass public shootings, stand your...
CPRC at Fox News: “The real truth about Facebook’s ‘fake news’ filters”
Dr. John Lott as another piece at Fox News on some of the false statements that fact checkers have made about guns, crime, taxes, and vote fraud. To protect Americans against “fake” news, Facebook will now use filters so that only “reputable” articles can appear at...
Review of “The War on Guns” at Legal Insurrection: “masterfully researched book on guns, public policy & propaganda”
Andrew Branca has a review of Dr. Lott's new book at Legal Insurrection. The entire review is worth reading. Here are a few select paragraphs from it. For those of us in the gun rights and concealed carry community (and old enough to have been around) the 1990s was...
CPRC on the Giant KKOH (Nevada) and WWL (New Orleans) radio shows on topics from Michael Bloomberg to road rage
Dr. John Lott talked to Dan Mason about Lott's piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Michael Bloomberg's push for gun control laws across the US. (Tuesday, December 13, 2016 from 6:35 to 7:00 PM). Dr. John Lott talked to WWL about their Tommy Tucker about road rage in...
CPRC in the Daily Caller: The Mainstream Media are the real purveyors of Fake News
Dr. Lott has a new piece at the Daily Caller that start this way: Democrats and their media allies are trying everything they can to delegitimize Trump’s election. It started with a series of hopeless recounts, and now they claim that Russia hacked Democrat emails. ....
CPRC on the big WIBC in Indianapolis to discuss Michael Bloomberg’s Continuing Role in the Gun Control Debate
Dr. John Lott talked with Greg Garrison on his radio show about our research on police killing suspects and also Michael Bloomberg's role in the gun control debate. (Wednesday, December 14, 2016 from 11:05 to 11:30 AM)
CPRC talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about fake news in the New York Times
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber about the fake news again being published in the New York Times. (Tuesday, December 13, 2016 from 6:45 to 6:53 AM)
Another strong review of “The War on Guns” in the American Rifleman, calls book “a heroic effort”
This review of "The War on Guns" appeared in the December issue of The American Rifleman. While attacks on the Second Amendment are all-too common in today’s politically charged climate, advocates fighting for our right to self-defense and the right to bear arms now...
Why using media reports to classify accidental shootings is very misleading
While the CDC has made some big mistakes exaggerating the number of accidental gun deaths, it is a common refrain that the CDC is missing out on accidental gun deaths for those under age 18. A new Associated Press report claims that the true number of accidental gun...