On March 7th, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed legislation making South Carolina the 29th state in the nation adopt Constitutional Carry. As of July 2024, there will be 29 Constitutional Carry states when Louisiana's law goes into effect, covering 46.8%...
As of July 2024, there will be 28 Constitutional Carry states, covering 45.2% of Americans (152 million) and 66.9% of the country (2.54 million square miles). Our work on Constitutional Carry is available here.
With Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signing the state's Constitutional Carry bill into law today, twenty-six states now have Constitutional Carry laws, representing 64% of the land in the country and 43% of the population in 2022. If Nebraska and South Carolina pass...
The New York Times has a surprisingly balanced news story on Texas’ new Constitutional Carry law. See Mr. David Goodman's article quoted below. That said, a truly balanced piece wouldn’t have cited research on only one side of the issue. Dr. Lott told Mr. Goodman...
The CPRC has some new research published in Academia Letters. The research finds statistically significant reductions in murder from the adoption of Constitutional Carry laws (see Table 3). ConclusionLate adopting states issue fewer permits than early adopting states,...
Professor Carl Moody and Dr. John Lott have put together a response that Devin Hughes' GVPedia has put together attacking research that Professor Moody did on the impact of Constitutional Carry laws and other writing by Lott. A copy of Hughes' latest claims is...
Dr. John Lott had a letter to the editor that appeared in the Omaha World-Herald and Lincoln Journal Star that responded to a news article in newspapers around Nebraska about an op-ed that Lott had with Nebraska state Senator Tom Brewer. A Jan. 20 World-Herald article...
We have previously provided empirical work on the impact of Constitutional Carry Laws (download the paper here, and see particularly Table 3), but sometimes simple graphs that show the year-by-year changes are more convincing. With Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Indiana,...
The constitutional carry bill’s most significant change is to allow people to carry a gun more quickly if need arises. Sheriff’s departments in Alabama try to issue concealed handgun permits within 30 days after someone has met the requirements. If a woman is being...
Here is an op-ed that I wrote with Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward (though you wouldn't know it until you get to the tag line at the end of the piece). It’s always the same predictions of doom and bloodshed from gun-control activists. They warn us of...
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed with Florida State Representative Anthony Sabatini in the Orlando Sentinel and also the Daily Commercial and the Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville). Gun-control advocates keep making the same predictions of doom and bloodshed from...
With 20 other states with Constitutional Carry, it isn't too surprising that Texas has so far experienced no problems with its new law that has been in effect for a week. As we have seen in other states, at about the six month mark and surely at the one year mark,...