Here is a copy of the Amicus brief that the Crime Prevention Research Center has submitted in the case of United States v. Rahimi is available here. Abstract If people who are subject to a civil restraining order are dangerous, prohibiting them from possessing...
Data: For convenience, a PDF of the Excel file is also available here and a webpage with the list and links to the underlying news stories. FBI Active Shooting reports are available here (2000-2013), here (2014-2015), here (2016-2017), here (2018), here (2019), here...
The list of active shooting cases that were averted by people legally carrying guns that were missed in the FBI Active Shooting reports. The FBI's definition of active shootings is narrow: it involves cases where a gun is fired in public and not part of some other...
Professor Carl Moody, the CPRC's Research Director, and Dr. John Lott, the CPRC's president, have a new study. The paper is available to download here. Abstract In response to our short paper in Academia Letters, Bondy et. al. published much longer response in this...
Dr. Carl Moody, the Crime Prevention Research Center's research director, has published a new paper on stopping mass public shootings. A copy of the paper is available here. Clicking on this link downloads a pdf. . Abstract . The fact that an individual is willing to...
A survey in May for NPR/PBS NewsHour by Marist had the headline: “Most Americans say curbing gun violence is more important than gun rights.” The Survey from May 15th through the 18th claimed: “6 in 10 say controlling gun violence is more important than...
This is a revised, updated version of a post originally written on April 21, 2015. We have most seriously updated this list starting at the beginning of 2020. UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh wrote in the Washington Post on April 20, 2015: "Have civilians with...
Our newest research paper is available here. Because of our earlier work on this topic, the Ohio legislature on June 30th passed the Data Analysis Transparency Archive bill to ensure that the number of voters who voted can be matched with the number of ballots cast. ....
Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. and James Varney have a new piece at Real Clear Investigation. The piece was also republished at Zero Hedge, Black Hill Pioneer (South Dakota), Ohio Press Network, and Rantingly. . As gun violence has spiked across the country, Republicans have...
We have previously examined this rate from 2011 to 2015, but the above chart updates that data from 2016 to 2020. The FBI only has firearm murder data up through 2020. The average over the last five years is 67%, down slightly from the five-year average from 2011 to...
From a Twitter Post on June 17, 2023 Kamala Harris: "The number one cause of death of the children in America is gun violence." As we have previously discussed, a common claim is that firearms are the leading cause of death for "children or adolescents." On June 2nd,...
Fox News has a news article on a bet that Dr. John Lott offered twelve prominent pro-gun control academics. He wrote about this offer in The Federalist and in the piece he deals with the claims made below by a couple of the academics. A gun expert is asking academics...