Friday, December 1, 2023

At Fox News - Decline in New Gun Permits Doesn't Tell Whole Story About How Many Americans Carry

By Dr. John Lott

Foxnews.com recently reported: Gun Crime Expert Blasts Red State 'Cherry-Picking' By Yale Professor in Senate Hearing: 'Political Bias'. Republican senator and Yale School of Public Health dean sparred on gun crime, and I told Fox News Digital it was an example of how the left frames data in a way that misleadingly makes it seem like Republican-controlled areas are most plagued by crime. 

Also, the number of concealed carry permit holders in the U.S. dropped slightly this year, but the number of Americans carrying a concealed firearm has likely increased overall due to more than half of U.S. states enacting laws that do not require eligible residents to obtain a permit, according to the author of a new study examining gun data.

I've been tracking the number of concealed carry permits since 1998, and what you find is that this is the first year that there’s actually been a drop in the number of concealed carry permits. It’s not very much, but you basically see two different types of states. In the constitutional carry states, there was a drop. In all the other states, there was an increase. [more...]

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