Captain McCauley provides powerful testimony in favor of allowing civilians to carry permitted concealed handguns. Anyone who listens to Captain McCauley's testimony here will quickly see that part of it relies heavily on the CPRC's research here and here. ...
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Original Research: Concealed Carry Revocation Rates by Age: College age permit holders do not pose a greater risk
Read the entire new report Concealed Carry Revocation Rates by Age from the Crime Prevention Research Center here. It is a common refrain that we can’t allow permitted concealed handguns on university property because we all know how irresponsible young people can be,...
CPRC in Fox News: Police are extremely Law-abiding, but concealed handgun permit holders are even more so
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: . . . Gun control advocates just can’t accept the fact that concealed handgun permit holders are incredibly law-abiding. The New York Times’ recent attack on permit holders is typical. It is filled with...
Updated: Comparing conviction rates between police and concealed carry permit holders
A recent study provides numbers on police convictions over a three-year period from January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2007. This data was put together by doing news searches on media sources throughout the US. There are two reasons that their method makes police...
CPRC at Fox News: “Let’s not be so quick to believe gun-control rhetoric”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News on the New York Times reporting the latest Violence Policy Center claims starts this way: People walking the streets with guns pose a danger to others, right? With 12 million Americans across all 50 states now having concealed...
67-year-old concealed handgun permit holder fatally shoots one of the two men who tried to rob him
An attempted robbery of a 67-year-old black man by two other men occurred in Cobbs Creek Park, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, February 4th (click on the above picture to enlarge). The park is a little west of the Philadelphia Zoo. The police chief says in...
New Hope City (MN) Council Member John Elder responds to attack on council by drawing gun
When shots rang out in the New Hope City Council (Minnesota), Council Member John Elder, a former police officer, drew his permitted concealed handgun to protect those who were at the meeting. An armed attacker shot at a group of uniformed police officers, wounding...
Counties around Portland, Oregon experience explosive 41% or more growth in concealed handgun permits from 2011 to 2014
Portland's GoLocalPDX has a lead news story on the growth of concealed carry permits in the Portland area. Not enough information is presented in the article to determine the permit growth rate for all three counties, but Multnomah and Washington counties had a 41...
Dramatic video of a passerby with a concealed handgun permit saving a woman who was being attacked in her car
From CBS-TV in Dallas/Fort Worth about a case in Southlake, Texas: A North Texas man is being heralded a hero after police said he held a man at gunpoint who was assaulting a woman. The tense standoff broke out on Friday near the intersection of Carroll Avenue and...
Tragedy of Idaho permit holder illustrates lopsidedness of news coverage on guns, CPRC gets extensive news coverage over number of concealed handgun permits in Idaho
The horrible tragic death of Veronica J. Rutledge in Idaho obtained massive national news coverage. The 29-year-old mother was accidentally shot to death when her two-year-old reached into her handbag and fired her handgun. The news coverage generally provided little...
Two cases within a couple days where concealed handgun permit holders stopped robberies
One customer was killed here, but without the permit holder in this case, multiple customers might have been killed. St. Louis (occurred on Tuesday night, December 2, 2014): . . . Police said three gunmen entered the bar about 10:55 p.m. Tuesday — one of them...
CPRC in the Washington Post: “‘New’ research on gun laws and crime was flawed”
The CPRC has a letter to the editor today at the Washington Post that discusses a recent working paper that was discussed in the Post on November 14th. Dear Letters Editor: Christopher Ingraham’s “More Guns, More Crime” ignored research critical of a slightly updated,...