The State of New York has put in its response in the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen case that will be heard by the Supreme Court on November 3rd. The New York state response brief starts off making this point: “In 1897, this Court said that it...
Texas provides unique information on the race of permit holders as well having large changes in both the permit fees and training requirements. On September 1, 2013, Texas reduced the training requirement to obtain a permit from ten hours to four hours and eliminated...
Prof. Carl Moody, the CPRC's Research Director, has a new paper (available here) explaining why so many other papers are making mistakes in how they estimate the impact of concealed handguns on crime rates. The point might seem obvious, that there are huge differences...
Indiana has moved very close to Constitutional Carry. Not only isn't training mandated, but they have now made the lifetime permit free. Lawmakers voted to nix all handgun carry permit fees as part of their massive two-year budget . . . Lawmakers previously had made...
While Virginia colleges and K-12 schools have moved to online classes and the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles has waived certain training requirements for Class B commercial driver’s licenses, as of January 1, 2021, Virginia’s...
Original Post November 2, 2014: A 2012 survey of the literature in the University of Maryland Law Review is available here. Some of the peer-reviewed research showing that concealed carry laws reduce violent crime is listed here. This list includes papers using US...
Fox News has a news story on our newest annual report on the number of concealed handgun permits. A new report reveals that despite some states getting tougher on gun control, the number of Americans with permits to carry concealed firearms has spiked in recent...
A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2019 are available here. UPDATE: Some more recent data is shown at the bottom of this post and shows that the number of permits have increased by...
In a paper titled, “Changes in firearm mortality following the implementation of state laws regulating firearm access and use,” RAND Corporation staffers have published a paper examining child access prevention (CAP), right-to-carry (RTC), and stand your ground (SYG)...
Illinois Governor Pritzker has an executive order that will take effect on May 1st. “Wearing a face covering in public places or when working. Any individual who is over age two and able to medically tolerate a face-covering (a mask or cloth face- covering) shall be...
In 16 Constitutional Carry states, you don't need a permit to carry in the state, and in Montana, you don't need a permit to carry in about 99.4% of the state. But in the rest of the country, you need a permit to carry concealed. Partial list of states (We will update...
From Fox Channel 8 in Cleveland. Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones announced Tuesday his office is offering free CCW classes to churches “that have or are implementing security teams.” This comes after a deadly shooting at a church in Texas Sunday.“Unfortunately,...