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University of Chicago CCW Study
The now famous, most recent CCW Study, by none other than the prestigious University of Chicago, in the heart of one of the most anti-gun cities and States in the US, concludes that States who pass concealed carry laws have a dramatic decrease in crime and violence with NO INCREASE in shooting deaths and accidents! Pres. Obama-- check out your own town's research conclusions before supporting MORE BANS!
Numerous studies have concluded that CCW laws stop violent crime (duh-- pretty common sense), but the hallmark of the U of C study is that it ALSO PROVES that CCW laws result in NO INCREASE in even accidental gun violence. This is extraordinary, because just about everything else in life does have trade offs. This is partially attributed to EDUCATION about guns that generally accompanies CCW law passage.
The bad news is that banners have succeeded in moving the links about the study several times now, and gotten the ANTI GUN GOOGLE crowd to go along with it INCLUDING IN EDITORIAL. Here is the latest link info:
Gun Control Study
The Lott/Mustard gun control study was available here in HTML, RTF, Word, WordPerfect, PostScript, Adobe Acrobat, text, and zipped (Word) formats - it was the old July 26, 1996 draft of the study. These old files were deleted on June 28, 1997.
See the  paragraph below for links to more up-to-date texts of the study by John R. Lott, Jr. and David B. Mustard, "Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns".
Note also that there is a new book published in May 1998 by John Lott:
John R. Lott, Jr., More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998)(Studies in law and economics)(ISBN: 0226493636). 232p.
The University of Chicago Press page for ordering the book also includes an interview with John R. Lott, Jr. Now also 2d ed., 2000.
An August 15, 1996 draft of the study was published in HTML format as Law and Economics Working Paper No. 41 at the University of Chicago Law School web site at http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Publications/Working/41.html (and before that, it was at http://law.lib.uchicago.edu/faculty/lott/guns.html). More information about U of C Working Papers is available at http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Publications/Working/index.html. See also John R. Lott, Jr. & Wiliam Landes, Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private and Public Law Enforcement (April 1999, University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 73).
A newer, final version of the Lott/Mustard study has been published in the Journal of Legal Studies (v.26, no.1, pages 1-68, January 1997). It is available as a PDF file at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JLS/home.html (viewable using the Adobe Acrobat Reader availabe for free download from the Internet at http://www.adobe.com/). The exact URL for the study is http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JLS/lott.pdf.
Please check the new URLs above for the final, updated text of the study (published after July 1996). And change your links accordingly to the new pages/URLs.
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