The letter from 23 state Attorneys General to the Senate and House leadership in support of the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 (S. 446) and the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 (H.R. 38) cited three studies to show that concealed-carry...
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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...
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Multiple Victim Public Shootings Yale University Law School Working Paper, October 19, 2000. Lott, John R., Jr., Yale University Law School Landes, William M. University of Chicago Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Multiple Victim Public...