A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2020 are available here. AbstractDuring the Coronavirus pandemic, the number of concealed handgun permits has soared to over 21.52 million – a 48% increase...
Last year we put together a list of states that stopped issuing concealed handgun permits. While Pennsylvania issued more permits, police in Philly and other Pa. counties stopped issuing license-to-carry permits to gun owners amid the coronavirus outbreak. It appears...
Texas provides unique information on the race of permit holders as well having large changes in both the permit fees and training requirements. On September 1, 2013, Texas reduced the training requirement to obtain a permit from ten hours to four hours and eliminated...
Indiana has moved very close to Constitutional Carry. Not only isn't training mandated, but they have now made the lifetime permit free. Lawmakers voted to nix all handgun carry permit fees as part of their massive two-year budget . . . Lawmakers previously had made...
In the 2008 Heller decision, Scalia noted: At the time of the founding, as now, to “bear” meant to “carry.” See Johnson 161; Webster; T. Sheridan, A Complete Dictionary of the English Language (1796); 2 Oxford English Dictionary 20 (2d ed. 1989) (hereinafter Oxford)....
The power of prisoner rights groups is on full display right now in an ongoing battle with the Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC). Our Nikki Goeser is fighting with TDOC to get them to remove the good time early release credits granted to the man who murdered...
Do you think that Apple’s Chief Security Officer, Thomas Moyer, could pass a background check? How about the four executives at Apple that Moyer was trying to get approval to have permits? Do you think that if Apple’s Chief Security Officer and other executives could...
In 16 Constitutional Carry states, you don't need a permit to carry in the state, and in Montana, you don't need a permit to carry in about 99.4% of the state. But in the rest of the country, you need a permit to carry concealed. Partial list of states (We will update...
Dr. John Lott has another piece at National Review about the New York Times continuing to disseminate clear false claims by the New York Times (though this could just as well be written about other publications such as The Hill): . For the fourth time in less than two...