Media Discussion on CPRC

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...

An Associated Press article on black women's changing views on guns discussed our new study that we released last week.  The article appeared in hundreds of publications in the US and around the world.  Among other places, the story was picked up was ABC News, New...

This is a very nice discussion by Eric Bolling.  Lars Larson also had a discussion on our work later in the same program. (Fox News' "The Specialists," July 19, 2017)

The Blaze, July 20, 2017 Since July 2016, handgun permits surged to 1.83 million from 1.73 million, and continues to rise, mostly thanks to women and black Americans, according to a new report. Research from the Crime Prevention Research Center reported that over 6...

Fox News has an article this morning on our new study regarding concealed handgun permits.  They even put together the above video for our news release. Concealed handgun permits in the United States soared by 1.83 million since last July, setting a record for the...

Breitbart.com, June 15, 2017 Congressmen Louie Gohmert (R-TX) noted Dr. John Lott's work in an interview that he did on SiriusXM radio. “We cannot allow Washington D.C. to continue to be a place where only the criminals and the police have guns. That needs to change....

Dr. John Lott was among the people interviewed by the PoliZette about the latest anti-self-defense editorial by the New York Times.  Their editorial was responding to President Trump’s Tweet: “Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That’s because they...

  Fox News Insider, May 30, 2017 On "Varney & Co." today, Dana Loesch said the number of concealed carry permits has risen dramatically in the past year, and women have been leading the charge. Women like having that equalizer, she said, and to be able to...

CPRC's research is covered extensively in a new Fox News story. The number of concealed carry permits in the United States has topped 15 million over the last year, according to data collected by the Crime Prevention Research Center. That’s the largest one-year...

Townhall, April 27, 2017 As gun scholar John R. Lott Jr. notes, “Letting teachers and staff carry concealed handguns is nothing new in the United States. And there has been good reason for allowing it -- police virtually always arrive after an attack has occurred....