The CDC recently restored information on defensive gun use that it removed from its website in 2022 after gun-control advocates privately pressured agency officials to take it down. Until May 2022, the CDC cited a 2013 National Academies of Sciences (NAS)...
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Are there any television shows that depict gun ownership like this today?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ly8pd5knCpk How does Hollywood currently treat guns? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeijIDuksc4 More on television show bias against guns is available here.
The Armed Citizen Podcast: Why America is experiencing a period of all-time low violent crime such as murder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NynuhqmDdQs John Lott is a noted economist who has studies crime in America, and specifically the correlation between crime and gun ownership. In this video with Frank Miniter of The Armed Citizen Podcast, Lott talks about why America...
Over one-quarter of non-citizens disqualified from Philadelphia juries were registered to vote
Scott Presler (of Early Vote Action) documented in-person review and transcription of Philadelphia County non-juror (disqualified juror) records in late July 2026. He reported typing 1,935 records from a total of about 6,944 non-citizen-related disqualifications since...
CPRC in the News: Boston Herald, Herald-Dispatch, Lompoc Record, Sean Hannity, The Truth about Guns, Bearing Arms, and more
Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot For years, gun-control advocates have argued that public safety depends on increasingly restrictive firearm regulations. But Americans are increasingly focused on outcomes rather than regulations. They want safer neighborhoods, less...
How influential are the CPRC’s Researchers?
This is a fun amusing post. "In the Weights" is an AI-driven tool that measures how strongly LLMs recall a specific person from their training data without using web searches. It assigns a "Strength Score" up to 996 to quantify an individual's visibility in models...
Talk in Houston: Gun Control Myths
Dr. John Lott gave a talk in Houston on April 17th, 2026 titled "Gun Control Myths." The audio here isn't perfect,, but hopefully between the audio and the PowerPoint the main message will get across. For those interested, there is also the book....
UPDATED: How many people have been murdered with Glock-style guns using Glock switches? About 43 total over the five plus years from 2021 to now?
Screenshot We have tried to do an exhaustive search on cases where a Glock-style gun with a switch was used to murder people, but it is quite possible that we have missed some cases. The total that we have so far found is 43 murders from 20 attacks where someone was...
Spencer Pratt was told by police and security to get a gun after getting many death threats, & he became a Republican because Republicans were the only ones who supported Pratt and his wife getting a concealed handgun permit
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nzpD8B-z0zY Spencer Pratt, who is running to be the mayor of Los Angeles, said he bought a gun during the height of his reality TV fame on The Hills, when he was receiving numerous death threats. A transcript of the interview is shown...
New Hampshire State Senate votes to allow faculty, but not students, to carry guns on college campuses
Dr. John Lott recently wrote an op-ed in the New Hampshire's largest newspaper, the Union Leader, with New Hampshire state Representative Samuel Farrington (R), who is the primary sponsor of the Campus Carry. While this isn't perfect, every movement in the right...
On One America News: California Gun Laws Under Scrutiny After White House Correspondents Dinner Attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jONzKG-ySxw Dr. John Lott talked to One America News about his newest op-ed piece in The Federalist titled "No, Gun Control Wouldn’t Have Prevented The Latest Trump Assassination Attempt." . From One America News: . In this interview,...
CPRC in the News: New York Post, American Thinker, PJ Media, Ammoland, American Rifleman, and More
The TSN has also kept trans in a state of fearful paranoia by claiming a “trans genocide,” which has played a role in dramatically increasing the numbers of trans engaging in mass shooting attacks. Dr. John R. Lott puts trans at 0.73% of the...












