You have to admire Governor Greg Abbott's style. Gov. Greg Abbott visited the Alamo Thursday to ceremoniously sign a bill into law allowing most adults to carry a handgun without a permit or training.Lynnanne Nguyễn and Black Hanson, "Texas governor signs new law...
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CPRC in the News: Orange County Register, PEW, Business & Politics Review, Townhall, and more
Overall, gun policies in state capitols, even after the January riot in Washington, remain split. About 30 state capitols employ metal detectors, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Conversely, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center,...
On the Dinesh D’Souza Podcast: Discussing Gun Control and Vote Fraud
Dr. John Lott talked to Dinesh D’Souza on his podcast about why more guns mean less crime and also why our new research on voting rules in other countries. (June 14, 2021)
At the Missoulian: Missoulian’s one-sided attack on credibility
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Missoulian responding to a news article attack on him. The Missoulian’s initial report on there being thousands more recorded votes than envelopes for the ballots from Missoula County’s November all-mail-in election was largely a...
Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) relies heavily on the CPRC work
Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) relied very heavily on the research from the CPRC. Massie's former staffer is our Executive Director, Nikki Goeser. Her recent testimony before the US Senate is available here. Information on safe storage laws is available here. The...
CPRC in the News: Breitbart, Business & Politics Reporter, PJ Media, Chronicles, and many more
For example, on September 9, 2016, Breitbart News reported data from John Lott’s book, The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies, which showed that Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law benefited black people more than white people.Lott...
On the Alan Nathan Show: Discussing that Cost-Benefit Calculations behind the Johnson & Johnson Coronavirus Vaccine
Dr. John Lott appeared on the national Alan Nathan Show to talk about the piece that he wrote at Townhall with Dr. Timothy Craig Allen, who is both on our Board of Directors and a governor of the College of American Pathologists. They discussed "The Hysterical...
New York City’s likely next mayor calls out gun control hypocrites, will carry a gun himself when he is mayor
Gosh, Eric Adams might be a traditional liberal in lots of ways, but there is one thing that makes a huge difference: he was a police officer for 20 years. Adams, the Brooklyn Borough president, was the first-place pick for 21 percent of the respondents in a three-day...
More Lies by the Giffords Center on Gun Laws: False Claims about Baker Act and Red Flag Laws
As is all too often, the Giffords Law Center mischaracterizes laws in ways that helps them advance their gun control effort. They have it wrong on the number of states that allow open carry of guns without a permit. They are wrong on the number of states that allow...
The Use Of Machine Guns On Television Shows Never Stops: ABC’s The Rookie
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. This episode of ABC’s The Rookie (Season 3, Episode 3, January 17, 2021) has machine guns being used...
UPDATE: The false narrative of white supremacists doing mass public shootings: Racial, Gender, Religious and Political views of these killers from 1998 through March 2021
Entertainment television continually provides a false impression of those who commit mass public shootings and how they commit them. Show after show has mass public shootings involving machine guns, though that never happens. But another myth is that attacks are...
Criminals on television entertainment keep using machine guns: Again on NBC’s Chicago PD
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. This episode of NBC’s Chicago PD (Season 8, Episode 8, March 10, 2021) has machine guns being used...












