The Violence Policy Center regularly puts out the claim that concealed handgun permit holders are a danger to themselves and others. Right now they claim that concealed handgun permits have been responsible for 636 deaths from the entire United States over almost...
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9th Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down Hawaii’s Concealed Carry Law
Appeals Court Judges Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Sidney R. Thomas, and Consuelo M. Callahan, who made the decision striking down California's requirement of demonstrating the need to carry a concealed handgun before a permit was granted, have now made the same decision...
CPRC on KRLA in Los Angeles to discuss 9th Circuit decision striking down California’s concealed handgun law
The audio from Sunday, February 23, 2014 on their Sunday Morning Newsmakers show is available here.
Interview on Michigan Talk Radio about the 9th Circuit decision on Concealed Carry
The audio of the interview with John Lott is available here (8:07 to 8:14 EST AM, Wednesday, February 19, 2014). • Write up on the court's decision is available here.
CPRC on Coast-to-Coast AM for 2 hours (Audio)
CPRC was on George Noory's radio show last night for the first two hours of the show (3.25 million weekly listeners). Among the topics: the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals case striking down California's concealed handgun law, the big push to scare Americans into not...
CPRC at Fox News: “It may soon be easy to carry a permitted concealed handgun in California”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: California may soon join 42 other states in letting people carry concealed handguns once they meet certain objective criteria. Thursday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the state couldn’t ban both...
CPRC in the Christian Science Monitor: How law-abiding are concealed handgun permit holders
From the article in the Christian Science Monitor: Arguments for concealed carry "I don't argue that there are no problems with [concealed-carry permit holders], but when you look at the data it's pretty hard to find any other group in the population that's as...
CPRC at Fox News: Civitas Media’s concealed weapon databases of permit holders won’t make US safer
The newest piece at Fox News starts this way: January is National Stalking Awareness Month and this week's announcement by Civitas Media, that it was constructing a national database of concealed handgun permit holders, couldn’t have come at a worse time. This is...
CPRC on Chicago’s WIND AM talking to Big John Howell and Amy Jacobson
The discussion focused on everything from Illinois' new concealed carry law to background checks (audio of the 12 minute interview is available here)
CPRC participates in CNN discussion on Detroit Police Chief’s statement that letting more people carry concealed handguns will deter more crime
CPRC's John Lott was on Erin Burnett's CNN show on Friday night. The video of the show is available in two parts (here and here). CNN gave this description of the show: A surprising statement on gun violence from the police chief of one of America's most violent...
Newest Fox News piece: “1 year after Newtown, support for stricter gun control has disappeared”
A New op-ed piece by John Lott starts this way: President Obama has pushed hard for gun control this year and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent millions of dollars on ads, but the administration's promise to coordinate "a November lobbying effort and plan...
Newest Fox New piece: New gun rules for Neighborhood Watch volunteers in Sanford, Fla. about race, politics not saving lives
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: When lives are on the line, what saves lives -- not politics – should guide policy. Gun control advocates used to warn about blood in the streets if we didn’t tighten gun laws, but as concealed handgun permits in...