UPDATE: Our newest annual study is available here. Original: The CPRC has new issue of our annual report on the number of concealed handgun permits in the US. A copy of the report is available here. Some updated numbers are shown at the bottom of this post. Past...
CPRC original research
CPRC in the American Journal of Epidemiology: “What do we know about the Association between Firearm Legislation and Firearm-related Injuries”
CPRC President John Lott, CPRC Academic Board Member Carl Moody and CPRC Research Direction John Whitley had a letter in the June 16th issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology to point out errors in a recent paper in the journal by J. Santaella-Tenorio, A. Cerdá...
NEW CPRC research: Do economists and criminologists differ in their views of firearms’ effects on crime and suicide?
Regulation (Summer 2016) has published some new research by John Lott and Gary Mauser on "Do economists and criminologists differ in their views of firearms’ effects on crime and suicide?" A copy of the article is available here.
Updated: Murder and homicide rates before and after gun bans
Original post: Every place that has banned guns (either all guns or all handguns) has seen murder rates go up. You cannot point to one place where murder rates have fallen, whether it's Chicago or D.C. or even island nations such as England, Jamaica, or Ireland. For...
Another gun ban, another bad outcome: Venezuela homicide rate rose after 2012 ban on private ownership of guns
Private gun ownership was banned in Venezuela in June 2012, but their homicide rate went from 73 per 100,000 people in 2012 to 82 per 100,000 people in 2015. A private organization, the Venezuelan Violence Observatory (OVV), puts the rate in 2015 at over 90 per...
NEW CPRC Report: Much less than 0.039% of guns sold by Federally Licensed Dealers stolen last year — a rate less than 1/30th the rate of theft for retail industry
A new report from the BATF points out that Federally Licensed Gun Dealers had 6,163 firearms stolen from them in 2015. With the Obama administration finalizing a new rule to enhance dealer reporting of stolen or lost firearms, this BATF report allows us to...
New CPRC Study: Comparing the views of Economists and Criminologists on gun control
Gary A. Mauser, Simon Fraser University (SFU) - Beedie School of Business, and John Lott have a new survey of academic criminologists and economists who have done empirical research on guns that has some very interesting results. A copy of the survey is available...
US becoming safer compared to Europe in both fatalities and frequency of Mass Public Shootings: US Now ranks 11th in fatalities and 12th in frequency
"But we are the only advanced country on Earth that sees this kind of mass violence erupt with this kind of frequency. It doesn’t happen in other advanced countries. It’s not even close. And as I’ve said before, somehow we’ve become numb to it and we start thinking...
New CPRC Research: “Do Background Checks on Private Gun Transfers help Stop Mass Public Shootings?”
Today President Obama addressed the issue of mass public shootings and background checks. From the Fox News article today discussing our new study: The report, published by the Crime Prevention Research Center on Jan. 2, argues that not only are background checks...
Fraudulent study in the American Journal of Public Health inaccurately claims that states with more guns have more police deaths
The end of last week a study in the American Journal of Public Health claimed that there were more police feloniously killed in states that had more guns. The study got extensive news coverage on the TV networks such as NBC News, dozens of newspapers such as the...
Washington Post’s misleading article on “mass shootings” — falsely claiming “204 mass shootings” when virtually none of these cases qualify for the normal definition of “mass,” UPDATED: Response from Washington Post
Click on screenshots to enlarge. Christopher Ingraham at the Washington Post has another article on guns. Unfortunately, Ingraham explicitly ignores the FBI's definition on mass shootings. The cases he ends up with involve very few murders and are heavily biased to...
New Study: Over 12.8 million concealed handgun permits, last year saw by far the largest increase ever in the number of permits
The new report is available here. Reports for other years including 2016 can be viewed here. Part of the executive summary is shown here: Since President Obama’s election the number of concealed handgun permits has soared, growing from 4.6 million in 2007 to over...