The CPRC has just issued our newest annual report on the number of concealed handgun permits in the US. A copy of the report is available for download here.
Study Finds Over 17 Million Americans with Concealed Handgun Permits
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The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) is a research and education organization dedicated to conducting academic quality research on the relationship between laws regulating the ownership or use of guns, crime, and public safety; educating the public on the results of such research; and supporting other organizations, projects, and initiatives that are organized and operated for similar purposes. Visit: www.crimepreventionresearchcenter.org
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Crime Prevention Research Center, After NRA Annual Meetings Update
For those who weren’t able to attend NRAAM in Dallas, you will find a video of my talk where I discussed some of the many gun control lies getting attention these days.
Crime Prevention Research Center on Fox News & Hannity’s Radio Show
In the twenty years that I have discussed guns in the media, I don’t believe that I have seen such media bias.
Flawed Right-to-Carry ‘Study’ Bolsters Agenda against Guns
Once the headlines have been absorbed, reinforced biases will make unquestioning voters receptive to politicians promising more disarmament legislation.
The War on Guns – New Book by John R. Lott, Jr
In this, his latest and most important book, The War on Guns, Lott offers the most thorough debunking yet of the so-called “facts,” “data,” and “arguments” of anti-gun advocates
CRPC Explains How Some Military Firearms Are Designed Not To Kill
Last week, the Crime Prevention Research Center also explained why President Obama doesn’t understand how firearms have been developed by the military to not kill…
Current Firearms Background Check System Is A Real Mess
It’s just one way the Obama administration prevents people from owning guns. This disproportionately impacts the law-abiding poor & prevents people being able to defend themselves…
Do Background Checks on Private Gun Sales Stop Mass Murders?
This is the first study to systematically look to see if that is true. And in fact there is no evidence that these laws reduce the risk of these attacks..
Crime Prevention Research Center: 2015 End of Year Report
The Crime Prevention Research Center secured a total of 439 media hits from November 2014, October 2015 for an average of one media hit for each day of the past year…
Bloomberg Continues to Flood USA with Bogus Anti Gun Research
Bloomberg and others are funding so many new gun control studies that it is becoming harder to keep up with the multiple studies that are coming out each week…
Anti-Gun’s Weird (read fake) Science
Common sense is all one needs to know anti gun forces misuse data in their ongoing attempt to undermine the Second Amendment…
New Study: More Carry Permits = Less Crime
A new study by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) finds that the number of people with concealed firearm carry permits has reached an all-time high, and that increasing the number of…
Former CNN Anchor & Concealed Carry Holder, Lynne Russell – Survives Shootout
This case is getting some attention because Lynne Russell was such a public figure on CNN news for so long…
Vaughn Explains The Obvious: Mass Killers Pick Venues Where Victims Are Sitting Ducks
It seems Vince Vaughn understands the flaw that is gun free zones….
Where’s The Coverage Of Heroes Who Stop Mass Killings?
Where is the Coverage Of Heroes? Heroic citizens stopping someone from killing a large number of people don’t seem to be considered news worthy…
Crime Prevention Research Center Has 5 Of The Top 7 Most Downloaded Gun Crime Papers
The Crime Prevention Research Center has five of the top seven most downloaded criminology papers related to guns…
GUNTALK Donates $50,000 to the Crime Prevention Research Center
At the 2015 NRA Annual Meetings last weekend in Nashville, TN, Tom Gresham’s GUNTALK, a nationally-syndicated radio talk show, made a $50,000 donation to a leading research center for crime………..
CPRC Testified Before NV Assembly Judiciary Committee On Eliminating Gun-Free Zones
Comments from John R Lott; “My testimony before the Nevada Assembly last week on gun-free zones was also very well received and had a powerful impact on the entire hearing”…
New Report from CPRC Shows 11.1 Million Americans Hold Concealed Carry Permits
A recently released a report on Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States, reveals that 11.1 million Americans hold concealed carry permits UP from an estimated 4.6 million in 2007…
Can the FBI Be That Dumb, New Report on Public Shootings Uses Biased Data & Bad Math
The Obama administration’s FBI report obtained its result by manipulating the data: including non-mass shootings, missing mass shooting cases, & selectively picking the period of time examined…
CRPC At Fox News: ‘Expert: Blacks Trust Police More Than Whites Do’
Do blacks trust police more than whites do? Given the anger over events in Ferguson and New York City, the very question seems absurd. But it is not….
New Pew Survey Shows That Support For Gun Ownership Increasing
New Pew Survey shows that support for gun ownership increasing, mirrors other surveys showing that people believe guns make them safer…
Media Matters Continues Smear Campaign On Economist John Lott
Media Matters has long conned the public that it is fighting misinformation on the internet, but lately the group seems to be creating its own mean spirited misinformation…
Concealed Handgun Permit Holders Stopped Robberies
One customer was killed here, but without the permit holder in this case, multiple customers might have been killed…
John Lott Discussing The Increase In Gun Sales During November 2014
One can only wish that the 32-year-old Bosnian who was clubbed to death by a group of hammer-wielding teenagers in St. Louis had a gun for self-defense…
Ferguson: Obama Contines To Undermine Police Departments Around The Country
President Obama has continually undermined police departments around the country, and his demand for more training fits that pattern…
Problems With The Washington & Huffington Post’s ‘More Guns, More Crime’ Claims
On Friday, Christopher Ingraham in the Washington Post felt this “new research debunks a central thesis of the gun rights movement”, he is wrong on many counts…
Homicides per 100,000 in G-8 Countries
Homicide rates per 100,000 in G-8 countries vary from .3 in Japan to 9.2 in Russia. Looking at homicides only involving guns in these countries is misleading.
Researchers Assail Everytown and FBI Shootings Reports
Everytown greatly exaggerated the number of mass shootings, failed to adequately research the crimes in its report & failed to correctly distinguish public shootings from those of other types…
New Report Details Radical Green Activist’s Money in Bed With Anti-Gun Groups
Report exposes how these left-wing billionaires direct and control the environmentalist movement and are now targeting your gun rights with their billions in leftist funding…