Creators, August 22, 2017; Townhall.com, August 22, 2017; Arkansas Online, August 24, 2017; Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 26, 2017; Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, August 25, 2017; Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise (Oklahoma), August 28, 2017; NRA-ILA,...
The Washington Times has a long article on our annual report on concealed handgun permit report: More than 16.3 million American residents now hold concealed weapons permits, according to a new report that says even as gun purchases are leveling off, the rate of folks...
West Wing Reads, July 31, 2017 Regarding historic Democratic obstruction, at Fox News, former U.S. Sentencing Commission economist John R. Lott writes that “Democrats have done everything they can to slow down all of President Trump’s nominees,”highlighting the case...
The Las Vegas Review-Journal has an editorial that spends a significant amount of space discussing our recent writings. The entire piece is worth reading, but here is part of it: Democrats like to say that they work for the little guy. How is it, then, that they seem...
Fred Kunkle at the Washington Post has a follow-up story on the seizure of guns at US airports and on our work on concealed handgun permits. A researcher has run the numbers on the record-setting number of guns found in carry-on luggage at airport checkpoints and...
The CPRC has done multiple radio interviews on our new report (e.g., here, here, here, and here), and we continue to get other media coverage. Fox News, August 2, 2017 There are more than 16 million concealed-carry permittees in the U.S., a figure that soared 256...
On Monday, August 7th at 9:09 PM, Greg Gutfeld discussed Dr. John Lott's new op-ed in the Chicago Tribune that discussed how gun control laws are disarming the very people, poor blacks, who need protection the most. GUTFELD: The reason why we're doing this segment is...
Fred Kunkle at the Washington Post has a story about the record number of seizures of guns at airports and is calling for stiffer penalties. . . . The increase in gun seizures is no doubt a reflection of record numbers of air travelers and the rising number of...
Jedediah Bila on ABC's The View: I'm not a gun owner. I spend a lot of time with gun owners and spent a lot of time in Texas. When you study these shootings, what you find out is a lot of the lunatics, these maniacs target gun-free zones. The Aurora shooter, who went...
Fox & Friends briefly mentioned our report showing the huge 93% increase in concealed handgun permits by women over the last four years. There was one mistake in their report. Permits for blacks increased 30 percentage points faster than for whites.
LaGrange Daily News (LaGrange, Kentucky), July 5, 2017; Newnan Times-Herald (Georgia), July 5, 2017 A 2014 study by the Crime Prevention Research Center showed that 92 percent of mass shootings in public places between 2009 and 2014 were in GFZ’s. Daily Caller,...
Fox News has an article on the DC federal Circuit Court's decision to strike down DC's concealed handgun law (a copy of the decision is available here). The Fox News article contains this: . . . The decision deals another legal blow to efforts by city officials to...