State Senator Tom Brewer said November’s election made the Legislature slightly more conservative, so there are finally enough votes to advance the bill. Dr. Lott had an op-ed with Senator Brewer in the Omaha Wold-Herald earlier this year. Florida and Nebraska stand a...
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...
Starting August 1st, Louisiana law will allow veterans and active-duty military members to carry concealed guns without a license. Louisiana has about 292,586 veterans, 13,122 active military members, and an adult population of 3,567,841, roughly 8.6 percent of the...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFtWwptXw2M As Governor DeSantis notes, 25 states already have Constitutional Carry laws. From Tampa Bay's WTSP Channel 10: Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Friday by the time he is "done" as leader of the state, Floridians will have a...
With the signing of Georgia's Constitutional Carry law at the beginning of April, there are now 25 Constitutional Carry states. Georgia followed Alabama, Indiana, and Ohio. Nebraska is likely to be the five state.
Today Indiana Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed the state's Constitutional Carry/Permitless Carry bill. On Tuesday, March 8th, the Indiana House and Senate sent a Constitutional Carry bill to Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb. The House passed the bill on a...
Ohio today became the 23rd Constitutional Carry state, and with Georgia and Nebraska looking like sure things, there will soon be at least 25 Constitutional Carry states. It appears likely that the governor in Indiana will also sign the bill that passed his state...
The Nebraska state Senate needed 33 votes to overcome a filibuster, so they obtained two more than necessary. There are still two more votes that are necessary before the bill goes to the governor. Last year Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts promised to sign a...
Vote in the Alabama state House There are now 22 Constitutional Carry states. Very soon with Georgia, Indiana, and Ohio having high probabilities of passing similar laws and possibly Nebraska, the United States is on track for having 25 states. The vote in the Alabama...