UPDATE: Newest numbers 14.5 million permit holders in 2016. The report below is for 2014. The later reports for 2015 and 2016 can be seen here. ORIGINAL POST: Concealed-Carry-Permit-Holders-Across-the-United-StatesThe Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) today...
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Concealed Carry Permit Holder may have stopped North Las Vegas shooting that left three people dead
Picture of Joseph Wilcox and his family. UPDATE: The Las Vegas Review Journal has this: After the shooting, the couple headed toward a nearby Wal-Mart, where Jerad Miller was confronted by Joseph Robert Wilcox, 31, of Las Vegas. Wilcox was legally carrying a concealed...
University of Pennsylvania student with a concealed handgun permit wounds “Stab-happy [robbery] suspect”
The shooting occurred in Philadelphia on Wednesday, June 4th. The robber was Kermit Gosnell son, though he has apparently changed his name to Baron Alexander, presumably due to his father's conviction of murdering three babies who were born alive. From the...
CPRC at Fox News: Media feeding frenzy over open carry guns in restaurants much ado about nothing
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: The NRA’s strong statement reprimanding a few people for carrying long guns into restaurants was bound to get media attention. Bloomberg’s Moms Demand Action and much of the media quickly jumped in and described...
6 killed, seven wounded in Mass Public Shooting in Santa Barbara, a giant gun-free zone
UPDATE: As usual, the media news stories got fundamental facts wrong here. Of particular interest, half the people killed here were stabbed to death. Also, you won't hear this in the news, the magazines that the killer used were also apparently limited to holding no...
CPRC on the Dennis Miller and Bill Martinez Radio Shows
Dennis Miller Radio Show (Wednesday, May 7th, 2:06 to 2:30 PM) -- Great show largely on the problems with gun-free zones. Dennis - "I tell you that no matter what side of the gun issue you are in this country you are on you need to read the book More Guns, Less Crime...
CPRC on Fox News to discuss Chicago’s policing policies and restrictions on poor people being able to defend themselves
Appearance: Saturday, April 26th, 9:33 to 9:37 PM. Here is a rough transcript. Judge Jeanine: With me now, political commentator, author of seven books [actually eight] including More Guns, Less Crime, John Lott. Okay. More Guns, Less Crime. That is counter intuitive....
Massive errors in the Violence Policy Center’s “Concealed Carry Killers”
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...
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...