The Daily Caller, April 17, 2017; Daily Signal, April 18, 2017; News Max, April 18, 2017 “I expect murders to fall,” Crime Prevention Research Center President John Lott told TheDCNF. “How they fall is a different question. The people who generally obeyed the ban...
Media Discussion on CPRC
In the Wall Street Journal on how law-abiding concealed handgun permit holders are
The Wall Street Journal ran a lead letter that extensively discussed the Crime Prevention Research Center's work. The letter appeared as follows: Regarding James P. O’Neill and Cyrus R. Vance Jr.’s “Don’t Mess With New York’s Gun Laws” (op-ed, March 24): The authors...
CPRC in the News: Yahoo! News, Legal Insurrection, PJ Media, Florida Weekly, Aviation Pros, Dayton Daily News, and many others
Aviation Pros, March 9, 2017 (Helping the media putting numbers in perspective by providing the total number of concealed handgun permit holders.) Gun discoveries at the nation's airports jumped 28 percent between 2015 and last year when 3,391 firearms made it to...
CPRC in Newsweek on the Assault Weapon ban
Ted Nugent has an op-ed in Newsweek on the 4th Circuit's decision on Maryland's Assault Weapon ban where he discusses CPRC's research. The statistics from every crime study known to man, including the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program and Dr. John Lott’s exhaustive...
CPRC in the News: Charleston Gazette-Mail (West Virginia), PoliZette, Western Journalism, Southern, and others
Charleston Gazette-Mail (West Virginia), Saturday, February 11, 2017 . . . According to a 2015 study by the Crime Prevention Research Center, the number of women who applied for concealed-carry permits rose 270 percent between 2007 and 2015. Men’s applications...
CPRC research mentioned in Walter Williams’ latest column: Pawns of liberals, to the detriment of their safety
Walter Williams' latest national column on policing: To solve this problem, they want police departments to hire more black police officers. It turns out that the U.S. Justice Department has found that black police officers in San Francisco and Philadelphia are...
CPRC in the News: Washington Free Beacon, San Antonio Express-News, and other
Daily Post (Los Alamos, New Mexico), February 6, 2017 Persons supporting this bill have have argued that this bill would prevent violent gun crimes. Let’s look at the crime statistics from states that have adopted similar legislation. Dr. John Lott Jr., found in his...
A lot of news coverage for the CPRC
Besides the extensive coverage that we received in the Associated Press, here are some of the media attention that we received. National Review, January 25, 2017 Over at the Crime Research Prevention Center, John Lott Jr. notes that the number of “constitutional...
CPRC in the Associated Press: “packing guns on statehouse grounds”
Despite us emphasizing the Associated Press reporter with how incredibly rare any problems were with carrying guns at legislatures and noting that not one had been harmed in those cases, the reporter focused the very rare, minor problems that have occurred. The AP...
CPRC in the News: Fox Business, Yahoo News!, Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, Breitbart, The Blaze, and others
Fox Business, January 9, 2017; Yahoo News!, January 9, 2017; Yahoo Finance!, January 9, 2017 “Quite simply, the Ft. Lauderdale airport is a gun-free zone," Pratt stated. "In fact, the Crime Prevention Research Center reports that 'Florida is one of only six states...
CPRC on the One America News Network about racial discrimination problems caused by the gun background check system
The One America News Network, which is the fourth largest cable news network and has greater viewership than Fox Business News and Bloomberg TV, had an interview with Dr. John Lott about the problems with the gun background check system. To many Americans, gun...
CPRC in the News: Politifact, The Village Voice, Breitbart, and local newspapers across the country
Idaho State Journal (Pocatello, ID) Lead story, December 29, 2016 . . . In December 2012, 85,535 Idaho adults had concealed weapons permits, according to a report published by the Pennsylvania-based Crime Prevention Research Center. As of December 2016, 131,665 Idaho...












