This how the article at Breitbart starts: Radio host John Cardillo claims that interview segments with noted gun scholar John Lott were included in the earliest version of Katie Couric’s gun control movie Under the Gun, but were taken out at Michael Bloomberg’s...
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CPRC report on permitted concealed handguns makes the Pittsburgh Tribune Reviews’ front page, other papers as well
The Pittsburgh Tribune Review front page headline: "Demand high in Pa. to carry concealed guns." Demand for gun ownership in America continues to climb. The nation's 14 million concealed-carry permit holders marks an all-time high, with women snapping up concealed...
CPRC in the News: New York Post, KCET, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Townhall, PJ Media, and many others
New York Post, August 10, 2016 Criminologist: Why Hillary Refuses Police Union Backing “Democrats have drifted so far left, they now stand at odds with the country’s largest police union,” writes John Lott at National Review. He takes note of the little-reported story...
The Oklahoman Editorial Board extensively discusses the new CPRC report on Concealed Handgun Permits, other media also covering our report
The Oklahoman Editorial Board, Sunday, August 14, 2016 DUE in part to recent mass shootings, Democrats have begun to embrace gun control again. The Hill, a newspaper covering Congress, noted that this amounts to Democrats “betting that a shift in voter sentiment has...
News coverage about CPRC report on Record Number and Record Growth of Concealed Handgun Permits
There has been some new media coverage of our new CPRC report on there being over 14.5 million concealed handgun permit holders in the US. Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, August 10, 2016 Americans now holding permits to pack a concealed weapon in public has...
CPRC in the News: Newsweek, Florida Politics, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, The Blaze, Arizona Republic, and others
Newsweek, July 13, 2016 Obama has rightly been criticized on this front by the ever-alert John Lott for ignoring the underlying rate of violations, especially in connection with arrest rates for homicide, which are twice as high for blacks even though they are six...
CPRC in the Washington Post and Politifact on Obama’s claims about the ease of teenagers getting guns
"We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book." — Barack Obama on Tuesday, July 12th, 2016 in a speech at a memorial service in Dallas Both Washington Post and...
CPRC in the News: Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Sean Hannity, Cato Institute and many others
Cleveland Channel 5 ABC, June 27, 2016 Rodecker pointed to the latest Crime Prevention Research Center report that shows that the number of permits issued in the U.S. has grown more than 15% in the past year. . . . Ammoland, June 27, 2016 Details are emerging about...
CPRC Research in the Media about Gun-Free Zones
The Daily Caller, Monday, June 13, 2016 Another “new” lesson: Gun-free zones do not prevent attacks of this nature, and this past weekend in Florida proves it. According to the Crime Prevention Research Center, both the Pulse and the location where former Voice...
CPRC in the News: Science News, Orange County Register, Washington Times, Breitbart, and many others
Orange County Register, and The Press Enterprise (Riverside, California) Monday, May 23, 2016 • More gun control. Also pushed by Mr. Newsom, who is running for governor in 2018, this initiative, among other things, bans “possession of large-capacity magazines.” John...
CPRC quoted by the Associated Press: Commenting on lawsuits stemming from 2012 Batman Movie Theater Shooting
Associated Press, May 20, 2016 On Thursday, Cinemark Theaters won the lawsuit that had been filed against them by 27 plaintiffs -- survivors and families of people killed arising out of the 2012 Batman movie theater shooting. The jury quickly decided that "there was...
Katie Couric Spent almost 4 hours interviewing John Lott on film for her new Gun-Control Movie But Didn’t include Any of Lott’s Interview in the Movie
UPDATED: Post by John Lott: After over two hours of pre-interviews with Kristin Lazure, a Producer at Atlas Films, I was asked to travel to New York City to do an interview with Katie Couric for her new movie. As Kristin put it on July 14,...