An new study by John Donohue, Abhay Aneja, and Kyle Weber has received a lot of attention for supposedly finding some evidence that right-to-carry laws increase overall violent crime rates. It has been covered in Newsweek, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, Vice, Snopes, and...
Martin Luther King Jr is probably one of the more famous cases where someone who received numerous death threats was denied getting a permitted concealed handgun for protection. Below is a list of similar cases where people who have their lives threatened have been...
Arlington, Texas, May 3, 2017 A concealed carry holder is being heralded as a "hero" by Arlington police for preventing mass murder by killing an "incoherent" gunman at a bar Wednesday evening. Before he was shot about 6:15 p.m., the gunman killed the manager of Zona...
Michael Bloomberg continues pouring tons money into pushing gun control. Last November he spent $28 million on his two initiatives in Nevada and Maine. From 2013 to 2016, Bloomberg donated a total of $48 million to candidates running for federal office. The NRA...
The picture above is from the 2015 shooting at the Chattanooga military recruiting office. The gun-free zone sign is clearly visible on the front door. In a series of articles, Dr. John Lott has repeatedly raised the concern that while military personnel were...
The figure above shows the 32 states that honor a Pennsylvania concealed carry permit (resident). Interested readers can look up where other state permits are honored here. Since the November 8th election, there has been some hope that national reciprocity for...
Texas is now the third state that has more than a million active concealed handgun permit holders. As of April 30th they had 1,017,618 permit holders, about 5.3% of the adult population. The map above shows the percent of the population with concealed handgun...
Hillary Clinton has previously spoken out on restricting people being able to carry permitted concealed handguns on May 6, 2014: “We’re way out of balance. I think that we’ve got to reign in what has become an almost article of faith that anybody can have a gun...
John Lott was interviewed by Brett Kelman about the 18-month delay to get a concealed handgun permit in Riverside, California. From USA Today: In the seven weeks since terrorists killed 14 people in San Bernardino, requests for concealed firearms permits...
Sheriff David Clarke is a member of CPRC's Board of Directors. From Fox News: One California police chief is backing teachers in his district packing heat. Detroit Police Chief James Craig has been a leader in urging his community to arm itself. A Maryland sheriff is...
There has been a sharp rise in concern over terrorism, with few Americans believing that the government can stop lone-wolf attacks (22-77 percent) and not many more can stop a large scale attack (43-56 percent). A new Gallup poll shows that terrorism has become the...
Click figure to enlarge. Here are a couple simple graphs using Google Trends to show web searches for the term "concealed carry." After each of these three terrorist attacks over the last 90 days, you can see a sudden increase in interest for concealed carry. With...