A news article in the Washington Times: . . . The biggest change in production has come under President Obama. From 2001 to 2007, gun production held steady at between 3 million and 4 million units a year. It topped 4 million in 2008 but shot to 5.6 million in 2009,...
The Washington Times covered our survey of economists that was conducted by Professor Gary Mauser. Stephen Dinan's article that compared our survey to one done at the same time by David Hemenway: . . . Take Mr. Mauser’s question about self-defense and crimes: While...
Perry Chiaramonte's news article has this discussion of the CPRC and our survey that Gary Mauser oversaw of economists and their views on gun control: Critics who think the media has an anti-firearm agenda won't like the lineup behind a high-powered, upcoming seminar...
The Fox News story is available here. If you are interested in reading our original report that will be published this week in the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Today, please download it here. Right now the coverage of our report is at the very top of the Fox...
From an article by Bill Dentzer in the Idaho Statesman: . . . The move toward "shall-issue" accelerated in the mid-1980s. Florida became a shall-issue state in 1987, and now has 1.3 million concealed carry permit holders - roughly 10 percent of the national number,...
CPRC's research on concealed handguns is discussed here, though we are going to have to work with Jack a little bit to get the name right!
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News: Is gun ownership falling? The answer is yes, at least if you believe a new General Social Survey (GSS) by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). Supposedly, since the late 1970s, the percentage of homes with a gun has fallen...
A video of the first panel testifying on the bill to reduce the number of gun-free zones in Nevada is available below (Lott's testimony starts at 5:54 into the video below). Since the first panel went through a lot of the facts regarding guns and schools as well as...
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...
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...
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...
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...