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...
You can download a copy of our new research on international comparison of mass public shootings is available here. Please download and read it. Abstract The U.S. is well below the world average in terms of the number of mass public shootings, and the global increase...
Given all the concern about vote fraud, the CPRC investigated how other countries have handled the process. The paper is available for download here. Here is the abstract: Thirty-seven states have so far changed their mail-in voting procedures this year in response to...
Here is another example where police have said that if it wasn't for the presence of a legal concealed handgun permit holder many others could have been killed. Fortunately, one of the people wounded in the shooting had a permitted concealed handgun and was able to...
The Social Science Research Network's eLibrary provides 947,686 research papers from 498,760 researchers in more than 50 disciplines. Dr. John Lott's work was the 48th most downloaded researcher over the last 12 months, and he is the 24th most downloaded researcher...
Clearly neither the victims nor perpetrators of murders are "normal" people -- both groups are overwhelmingly criminals. Sixty-five percent of murders occurred for unknown reasons, and there were only 86 suspects for these 348 murders. Fifty-nine percent of murders...
Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. and our research director, Professor Carlisle E. Moody, have published a new research paper at Econ Journal Watch for an international comparison of mass public shootings. Abstract Adam Lankford (2016) claims that the United States accounted for...
CPRC has found that there are at least 21 State Capitols in the U.S. which officially allow some form of legal firearm carry for either visitors, legislators, employees, or all of the above. Tennessee is the most recent state to allow carrying permitted concealed...
Harvard's Arthur Berg, Simon Fraser University's Gary Mauser, and the CPRC's John Lott surveyed academics who have published peer-reviewed empirical research on gun control issues in the just published latest issue of Regulation. A pdf is available to be downloaded...
Dr. John Lott and, our research director, Carlisle Moody have new research on the impact of Red Flag laws on homicides and suicides. AbstractSeventeen states have passed Red Flag or Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) laws which allow police, family members,...
A copy of our newest report is available here. Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2018 are available here. Summary The number of concealed handgun permits has increased for the third year in a row. The figure now stands at over 18.66 million– a 304%...
Dr. John Lott joined with Professors Arthur Z Berg, MD and Gary A. Mauser in surveying criminologists, economists, and public health researchers on gun control. A copy of the new research is available here. Abstract Hundreds of millions of dollars go to firearms...