North Dakota's House Judiciary Committee held a hearing this week on bill that "would allow elected officials with a valid concealed carry permit to carry a firearm in public buildings." From the Bismarck Tribune (North Dakota) discussing the debate over the bill: . ....
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Counties around Portland, Oregon experience explosive 41% or more growth in concealed handgun permits from 2011 to 2014
Portland's GoLocalPDX has a lead news story on the growth of concealed carry permits in the Portland area. Not enough information is presented in the article to determine the permit growth rate for all three counties, but Multnomah and Washington counties had a 41...
CPRC in the New York Times: Are people carrying permitted concealed handguns into airports really significant?
The Sunday New York Times piece by Kate Murphy has this: . . . The Crime Prevention Research Center used public records to count 12 million Americans with concealed-carry permits. It’s probably a low estimate as numbers are not available for all states that issue...
Tragedy of Idaho permit holder illustrates lopsidedness of news coverage on guns, CPRC gets extensive news coverage over number of concealed handgun permits in Idaho
The horrible tragic death of Veronica J. Rutledge in Idaho obtained massive national news coverage. The 29-year-old mother was accidentally shot to death when her two-year-old reached into her handbag and fired her handgun. The news coverage generally provided little...
CPRC in the news on concealed handgun laws in Louisiana
The Times-Picayune discusses the Louisiana's concealed handgun law: A study by Crime Prevention Research Center, a gun-carrying advocacy site, looked at permit data from 2007-2013. It showed for each 1 percentage point increase in the adult population holding permits...
Explaining why the risks of lead poisoning from shooting guns is greatly exaggerated
This quote is part of a long piece that Thinkprogress.org had on the risks of lead poisoning. . . . John R. Lott is founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, a tax-exempt organization that works to “advance the scientific understanding of the...
CPRC at Breitbart on FBI’s problematic study on Mass Public Shootings
The story by Kristin Tate at Breitbart starts off this way: A fresh report by the FBI would lead one to believe that mass shootings in the U.S. have dramatically increased during recent years. But according to economist John Lott -- Founder and President of the Crime...
CPRC on CNN: Notes on California’s new gun violence restraining orders (UPDATE: The San Diego Union-Tribune picks up on CPRC’s discussion)
The CNN debate shown in the above youtube video was broadcast on the Michael Smerconish Show at 9:30 to 9:35 AM and 6:30 to 6:35 PM EDT, Saturday, October 11, 2014. California has long allowed police who believe that someone represents a danger to themselves or others...
CPRC at CNN: “Why blacks should have more guns”
CNN's John Blake has a new article on how race and guns. Bob Cottrol is also interviewed for the piece. Here is part of the discussion: Some gun rights advocates say contemporary black communities could learn from that tradition of self-defense. Restrictive gun...
CPRC in the Washington Times: “Bloomberg group’s mass-shootings report ‘riddled with errors’: gun reseacher”
From The Washington Times: The July report by billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s funded gun-control group Everytown for Gun Safety is “riddled with errors,” including mistakes in the number of shootings reported, the extent of the shooter’s mental illness and even where...
CPRC in the Washington Times: More evidence that the high costs of concealed handgun permits disarms poor blacks
This valuable data shows the gross disparity in concealed handgun permits by race and income in Chicago. Besides the $650 to get a permit (fees and training costs), one can't take the handguns with them on public transportation and there are no shooting ranges to...
Bloomberg Businessweek cites CPRC study on the number of concealed handgun permits
The piece by Joel Rosenblatt notes the comparison our recent study made between the explosion in concealed handgun permits and dropping murder rates: Gun control advocates say that math is dangerous, because without stringent permitting, the odds go up that guns will...