From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: The number of Minnesotans who are legally entitled to carry a handgun reached an all-time high in 2014, with 184,895 active permits by the end of the year, according to a new report from the state. The end-of-year total is more than...
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CPRC’s research used in legislative debate over gun-free zones in South Dakota
Our research has been used in legislative debate over allowing permitted concealed handguns on college campuses. The state House bill that would allow concealed carry at the University of South Dakota was defeated by a 48 to 20 vote. The president of the University...
CPRC testifies before the Wyoming State Senate on Gun-Free Zones
John Lott was the lead witness to testify before the Wyoming state Senate Education Committee about a bill to eliminate gun-free zones in government buildings and public school and universities. From Wyoming Public Radio: Only concealed permit holders would be allowed...
Greg Gutfeld gives a shoutout on The Five to our research
Watch the latest video at <a href="http://video.foxnews.com">video.foxnews.com</a> The text of Gutfeld's monologue is available here. Greg's discussion about our work is at 4:35 into the video. At about 3:00 into the video, Juan William claims that “half...
CPRC in the Chicago Tribune: “Take a gun to the mall”
John Lott's newest piece at the Chicago Tribune starts this way: Over the weekend Somali terrorists threatened to attack the Mall of America in Minnesota. They called for a massacre similar to the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed and...
CPRC at Fox News discussing “Microstamping” shell casings
From "Gun rights groups await judge's ruling on California's 'microstamping' law" by reporter Malia Zimmerman at Fox News: California's gun laws are among the nation's strictest, but a looming decision in a federal lawsuit could effectively ban handguns altogether in...
CPRC at Fox News: “Let’s not be so quick to believe gun-control rhetoric”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News on the New York Times reporting the latest Violence Policy Center claims starts this way: People walking the streets with guns pose a danger to others, right? With 12 million Americans across all 50 states now having concealed...
CPRC in the Christian Science Monitor and Yahoo News and other places
This is from Patrik Jonsson's article that originally appeared in the Christian Science Monitor and Yahoo News: Others, however, including John Lott, author of “More Guns, Less Crime,” have found the opposite – that the addition of 6 million concealed-carry permits...
Iowa’s concealed handgun permits soar 450 percent since 2010, CPRC in the news at Fox News
From an article at Fox News: In 2010, Iowa's numbers were just shy of 40,000, but according to data from the Iowa Department of Public Safety, last year the number crested 220,000. In 2011 alone, the number of permits issued in the state more than doubled. Nationally,...
CPRC in the New York Daily News: Rates that police kill black and white teenagers
From the New York Daily News: Black male teenagers are killed by police 2.3 times as often as whites, John Lott, the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, found. . . . While the 2.3 times number is much more accurate than the claims put forward by Slate...
The impact of the CPRC: Our research being used in debates over gun control
North Dakota's House Judiciary Committee held a hearing this week on bill that "would allow elected officials with a valid concealed carry permit to carry a firearm in public buildings." From the Bismarck Tribune (North Dakota) discussing the debate over the bill: . ....
Counties around Portland, Oregon experience explosive 41% or more growth in concealed handgun permits from 2011 to 2014
Portland's GoLocalPDX has a lead news story on the growth of concealed carry permits in the Portland area. Not enough information is presented in the article to determine the permit growth rate for all three counties, but Multnomah and Washington counties had a 41...