Last Thursday, the District of Columbia decided not to appeal a decision by the DC federal appeals court that declared DC’s concealed carry law unconstitutional. DC had asked the entire DC federal appeals court for an en banc review of that decision, but despite a...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the Orange County Register (287,474 daily circulation) on the move by Democrats in California to take away local control over whether permitted concealed handguns should be allowed in K-12 schools. Two years ago, California passed a...
The headline in the fourth largest Swedish paper, Aftonbladet, had the headline "Rensa Stockholm - stoppa bilarna," which translated means "Clear Stockholm - stopping cars." Banning guns from areas is obviously not the same as banning cars. Putting up barricades to...
Despite all the news coverage given to the Cincinnati Nightclub Shooting at the end of March, one part of the news coverage is again missing: that the attack occurred in a place where permitted concealed handguns weren't allowed. The picture shown here is from the...
Here is an interview that Dr. John Lott did with America's 1st Freedom: Discussion of so-called gun-free zones doesn’t make it onto the news much these days, so the truth can be hard to find. The reason why is simple: After high-profile shootings, the “mainstream”...
While there might have been others, at least one person in the baggage claim area at the Ft. Lauderdale Airport attack had a concealed handgun permit. Indeed, it is amazing that even this person is being reported. From the Associated Press: Florida is one of six...
A shooting today at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport has left at least 5 dead and 13 injured. Not surprisingly, Florida is one of only 6 states with laws that banned carrying guns in the unsecured areas of airports. A move was killed in 2016 to...
Does it matter that gun control advocates keep pushing for regulations before they know any facts? In this case, everyone from the Democrats vice presidential candidate, Senator Tim Kaine, to Shannon Watts with Michael Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety went so far...
The Cascade Mall Shooting in Burlington, Washington that took place on September 23, 2016 and left 5 people dead. It was yet another mass shooting around the world where the killer had a connection to ISIS. Arcan Cetin apparently had propped open an exit door to the...
CPRC's Nikki Goeser spoke with Gun Freedom Radio about her book "Denied A Chance:How Gun Control helped a stalker murder my husband." Nikki explains how she and her husband Ben were left defenseless due to the gun-free zone restaurant they were working in....
From the Voice of America: Thanks to Ohio state laws, anyone within the 8-square-kilometer "event zone" in downtown Cleveland will be able to openly carry legally owned firearms. With a valid permit, they can even carry a concealed weapon. And city officials cannot...
President of the Crime Prevention Research Center, Dr. John Lott, talked with host Joe Piscopo about Mass Murderers intentionally choosing Gun-Free Zones to attack. Time and time again there are evil people who kill with little to no resistance in these places because...