A shortage of ammunition in the U.S. is set to continue following record firearms sales this year. Reasons suggested for the high arms sales figures include uncertainty amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the upcoming presidential election and civil unrest...
Fox News has a news story on our newest annual report on the number of concealed handgun permits. A new report reveals that despite some states getting tougher on gun control, the number of Americans with permits to carry concealed firearms has spiked in recent...
John Lott writes in a Newsweek op-ed:Thirty-seven states have changed their mail-in voting procedures this year in response to the coronavirus. They have followed the lead of Democrats and the media, who claim that concerns about voter fraud and vote buying...
Fox News has a news story on our new research. A new report highlights the restrictive laws most European countries and other developed areas throughout the world have in regards to mail-in voting, contrasting highly permissive U.S. regulations, as the...
The Politico belittles President Trump's attempts to protect people and federal property against the riots as "Theater." They describe the discussion as "Now President Donald Trump is indulging the dream more than any national leader in recent history, attempting to...
FIRE AWAY — “California’s Ammo Background Checks Misfire,” by John R. Lott Jr. in the National Review: “Between July 2019 and January 2020, 101,047 non-prohibited Californians were prevented from buying bullets. By contrast, just 188 prohibited people were...
Glenn Beck on his television show used our graphics showing the per capita death rates from the Coronavirus across countries. A detailed discussion of our work is available here. (Wednesday, April 15, 2020)
PragerU has a video on gun control that references the CPRC research on mass public shootings in gun-free zones and the impact of Australia's 1996-97 gun buyback on crime rates. The number we have on mass public shootings in gun-free zones since 1950 is 94%. If we had...
Sebastian Gorka read Dr. John Lott's op-ed on how the Trump administration is enforcing travel restrictions because of the Coronavirus. Gorka: "Dr. John Lott Jr, who is as far as I am concerned the most preeminent expert on guns and guns violence in America today."...
The Crime Report, January 24, 2020 The number of Americans with concealed-carry permits has reached almost 18.7 million in 2019, up from 12.8 million in 2015, says the Crime Prevention Research Center, a gun-rights group. That growth was fueled by states like Oklahoma...
The Wall Street Journal mentions our research though they don't quite things correct. The error is in the second sentence. The growth in permits came despite states legalizing carrying without a permit, not because of more states allowing it. The number of Americans...
Here is the mention that the Wall Street Journal recently made of our work on which Capitols allow people to carry guns. . . . At least 21 states allow Capitol visitors, legislators or employees to carry guns under some circumstances, says the Crime Prevention...