At least nine states — Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia — have passed laws that discourage or prohibit the enforcement of federal gun statutes by state and local agents and officers. A large number of counties around the country have also agreed to be sanctuary counties.…
After many years with no real change in state laws on open carry, following the move to Constitutional Carry, there has been a significant increase in the number of states that allow open carry without a permit. Just in the last couple of years you have seen changes in states such as Oklahoma and Utah.…
Forty states have laws that prohibit the seizure of guns during emergencies, six states have laws that allow such seizures, and four states and the District of Columbia have no such laws on the books. These laws largely passed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall on August 29, 2005.…
CPRC original research, Gun Control Laws, Laws prohibiting the seizure of guns during emergencies
Gun Control Laws, Gun Free Zones
With Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signing HB 102 into law on Thursday, February 18th, 2021, 2021, Montana now allows to open carry, carry concealed without a permit, or carry concealed with a CWP, in a bank, a restaurant with a liquor license, or a bar. Thirty-four states now also allow people to carry concealed in bars.…
Constitutional Carry, Gun Control Laws
On Friday, February 12th, Utah’s Governor Spencer Cox signed a bill making Constitutional Carry the law in Utah. On Thursday, February 18th, Governor Greg Gianforte’s first priority for this legislative session has been signing a Constitutional Carry/eliminating gun-free zone, and it is now on his desk.
That might not be all this year.…
Constitutional Carry, CPRC original research, Gun Control Laws
Gun Control Laws, Gun Free Zones
CPRC has found that 23 State Capitols officially allow visitors, legislators, employees, or all of the above to carry guns legally. The New Hampshire state House is the most recent place to allow carrying permitted concealed handguns into legislative buildings.
By a 66-to-31 party-line vote, Montana’s state House just passed in January a bill that will allow people to carry in the state Capitol, and passage in the Republican Senate seems assured before the end of the month.…
Carrying on Statehouse grounds, CPRC original research, Gun Control Laws, gun free zones
Concealed Handgun Permit Report, Gun Control Laws
A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2019 are available here.
UPDATE: Some more recent data is shown at the bottom of this post and shows that the number of permits have increased by 681,246 since the last report was released.…
annual report on number of concealed handgun permits, concealed carry, CPRC original research, Gun Control Laws
Dr. John Lott and, our research director, Carlisle Moody have new research on the impact of Red Flag laws on homicides and suicides.
…Abstract
Seventeen states have passed Red Flag or Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) laws which allow police, family members, individuals living in the same residence, and others to file a petition for a court order temporarily seizing the firearms of persons accused to be a danger to themselves or others.
