Media Discussion on CPRC

Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey There are a lot of discussions in Tennessee about Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey's push to eliminate gun free zones in the state Capitol area.  Here is one example of the impact that the CPRC is having. Central Tennessee's NPR affiliate WKNO's Chas...

Five News Stories across Tennessee WZTV Fox 17 Nashville News, February 9, 2016 Nashville, Tenn --- Author and national gun law commentator Dr. John Lott spoke before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday in favor of a series of bills that expand where you can carry...

News Articles The Blaze, Friday, February 12, 2016 Academia is generally viewed as a liberal bastion, but one survey finds that despite their broad political leanings, college professors who have studied the impact of guns on society believe ownership of firearms...

News articles The Daily Times (Salisbury, Maryland), February 5, 2016 What Obama proposed would do absolutely nothing to remedy this problem. According to John Lott, who created the Crime Prevention Research Center, Obama had most of his conclusions exactly backward....

The Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, South Dakota has a story about how the last two months have seen a record breaking increase in the number of concealed handgun permits in the state. . . . More than one in eight adults in South Dakota boasts a permit to carry a...

Washington Post, January 18, 2016 The number of concealed handgun permits has increased over the past decade, from 4.6 million in 2007 to more than 12.8 million in 2015, according to a recent report from the Crime Prevention Research Center. . . . Santa Fe New...

Real Clear Policy, December 28, 2015 Kleck suggested that concealed-carry laws don't even increase the carrying of guns; instead, they just legalize what people were doing anyway. In response, Lott pointed out that the rising number of concealed-carry permits has...

David Nakamura and Juliet Eilperin have this article in the Washington Post: John R. Lott Jr., a conservative gun rights activist who heads the Crime Prevention Research Center, said administration officials tend to gloss over the fact that people who have been...

Fox News has this article on a school district in California that is fighting to allow concealed handgun permit holders to continue carrying in their school.  From Fox News: Weeks after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill barring concealed weapons on K-12 school grounds,...

This list here is only a tiny fraction of the news coverage that we have received over the last week.  We have seen the CPRC covered in hundreds of media outlets as a result of a story in the Associated Press.  Other outlets such as NBC News and Newsweek have also...