Only one state, Montana, still bans people with concealed handgun permits from carrying their guns in restaurants that serve alcohol. Montana allows people to carry openly in these restaurants, just as they allow open carry in banks. On Friday, January 29, 2021,...
While Virginia colleges and K-12 schools have moved to online classes and the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles has waived certain training requirements for Class B commercial driver’s licenses, as of January 1, 2021, Virginia’s...
UPDATE: It appears as if Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was able to keep the Democrats from changing the rules on letting members of Congress carry guns on Capitol grounds. Note also that in the video above, Boebert is pretty clearly using information that we put together...
December 17, 2020
December 29, 2020 Hank Calvin Wise murdered Nikki Goeser's husband Ben in front of her in Nashville, TN. While serving time in prison for the murder, he has been stalking/harassing her via the USPS.
With shootings up 96% this year, and murders up by 39%, it is understandable that people are concerned about their safety and have been applying for permits to own guns. New Yorkers seem people getting pushed in front of subway trains and getting robbed. They see the...
John Lott of The Wall Street Journal, who mentions the study in his 2013 piece on crime, alludes to a 5.7 per 100,000 murder rate prior to the ban expiring — in conjunction with the fact that the murder rate fell to 4.7 per 100,000, in 2011.Gabe Kaminsky, "Biden's...
So how has the new bail rules and releasing prisoners from jail because of the Coronavirus worked in New York? But is it really surprising that at the same time that they are letting these shooters back on the street that there has been an increase in crime? About...
CPRC's President Andrew Pollack has an op-ed at The Hill newspaper that responds to an attack from someone connected with the Brady Campaign against our past president, John Lott. The Hill recently published an opinion by Griffin Dix allegedly exposing a “time bomb...
Do you remember when the 1994 Federal Assault weapon banned semi-automatic rifles with two of six different features? One of those six was a grenade launcher attached to the gun. Presumably, few guns were banned because they had that feature. While there are...
President Trump in speech of December 2, 2020: Most Americans would be shocked to learn no state in the country verifies citizenship as a condition for voting in federal elections. This is a national disgrace. No other advanced country conducts elections...
The CPRC is very sorry to note the passing of a real friend of the CPRC. Walter, an economist who got his PhD from UCLA, made a real difference in the world in his academic writings and teaching. Walter cited and used our research many times in his writings and his...