https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4NSBuwklQM Here is a statement from Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna saying that California has among the strictest gun control laws in the country, and they aren't working. Of course, some would argue that California has the...
Among the items in the 4,155-page $1.7 trillion spending bill. -- 14 percent budget increase for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Its budget has been increased by 25 percent since the Trump administration. The BATFE is putting thousands of gun...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp07tQDqqbI Immediately before the election, Democrats wanted to disown the notion of defunding the police. Well, it is back again. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) raises the issue of enforcing the types of gun control laws that he...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to vacate lower court rulings in several gun rights cases and remand them back to lower courts for review “in light of” last week’s landmark 6-3 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen. Among these cases...
Professor Carl Moody and Dr. John Lott have written up some comments on the latest Donohue et al. paper on concealed carry. For some perspective, you can see the academic literature on the issue here and the Amicus brief that we filed with a literature survey here....
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist on the new Senate gun control bill. Senators are billing the new Senate gun control legislation as a bipartisan breakthrough that will make us much safer. “Our legislation will save lives and will not infringe on any...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...