Gun control advocates have condemned the Justice Department’s decision to stop criminally enforcing the nearly 60-year-old federal ban on licensed dealers selling handguns to law-abiding 18-, 19-, and 20-year-olds. Saying it will cause the loss of life. “That’s...
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New Survey: Voters by a 51.4% to 35.7% Margin Support Armed Teachers, Parents with Children in K-12 Support by an Even Larger 57.3% to 30.2% Margin
The CPRC hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey 1,000 general election voters on August 25th, 2026 (cross tabs available here) regarding general election voters' views on allowing teachers to carry concealed handguns at schools. While voters...
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At Townhall: Gun Control Advocates Really Don’t Think There Is Any Age at Which People Should Own Guns
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall. . Gun control advocates have condemned the Justice Department’s decision to stop criminally enforcing the nearly 60-year-old 1968 federal ban on licensed dealers selling handguns to law-abiding 18-, 19-, and...
At the New York Post: Left’s push to delay deporting illegal-migrant criminals imposes huge costs on taxpayers
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the New York Post. Also linked at Real Clear Politics. . Much of today’s deportation debate centers on the question of who should count as “criminals” to be immediately sent back to their home countries — with anti-deportation...
At Real Clear Politics: CDC Undercounts Defensive Gun Uses
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. It was also published at The Blaze and World Net Daily. . Whoever controls crime data can shape the political debate. The Trump administration has already reversed some of the changes the Biden administration made...
At Real Clear Politics: Supreme Court Just Gave Mail-In Ballot Safeguards a Chance
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. The piece also appeared at the Epoch Times and World Net Daily. . The Supreme Court’s decision to stay the injunction blocking President Trump’s March executive order on mail-in ballots gives...
At Townhall: The Trump Administration Restores the Gun-Defense Data the Biden CDC Buried
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall. . The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has restored information on defensive gun use that it removed from its website in 2022 after gun-control advocates privately pressured agency officials to take it down....
At Real Clear Politics: Krugman and the Politics of Falling Crime
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. It was also published in World Net Daily. . Paul Krugman remains one of the left’s most influential voices. In his latest column, he argues that President Trump avoids taking credit for the drop in murders...
At The Federalist: Socialists’ Demands To Abolish Police And Prisons Will Mean More Dead Americans
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. . Democrats insist that "Black Lives Matter," yet many increasingly embrace policies that protect violent criminals at the expense of black victims. . What these Democrats ignore is that criminals overwhelmingly...
At Real Clear Politics: America’s Murder Problem Is Smaller Than It Looks
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics that discusses our new research on murder and murder victims.See also World Net Daily . . World Cup visitors discovered something many Americans already know: The United States does not feel like the dangerous place...
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Talk at the 2026 Gun Rights Policy Conference: The Effects of Gun Control Policies on Crime and Public Safety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX8uoAHk8G0&t=222s A copy of the PowerPoint is available here. GRPC 2026 Sept 27 TalkDownload
Talk at Freedomfest on Restoring Self Defense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVlFRlwy4G4 Dr. John Lott's talk on July 10th, 2026 on Restoring Self Defense. A copy of the PowerPoint is available here.
Talk in Argentina: Making People Safer
Here is the audio and PowerPoint for Dr. John Lott's recent talk in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 13th. This talk has Lott speaking in English followed by a translator speaking in Spanish. Argentina-Talk-2025-without-videoDownload The video in the presentation is...
Media Appearances
On the Dave Elswick Show in Little Rock, Arkansas: To Discuss Gun Laws and the Costs of Delaying Deportation
Dr. John Lott appeared on The Dave Elswick Show in Little Rock, Arkansas, to discuss recent changes in gun laws and how they affect law-abiding gun owners. They also discussed Dr. Lott's new op-ed at the New York Post titled "Left’s push to delay deporting...
On Bolling! on Real America’s Voice: Illegal Convictions Cost Taxpayers
https://youtu.be/872DB0BMu0U Dr. John Lott talked to Eric Bolling on Real America’s Voice about the taxpayer cost of prosecuting and jailing illegal-immigrant criminals versus sending them home. They also discussed how forcing full U.S. prosecutions before removal can...
On Sunday Nights with Bill Cunningham Show: To Discuss Illegal Immigration in the United States
Dr. John Lott appeared on Sunday Nights with Bill Cunningham Show to discuss his new op-ed at the New York Post titled “Left’s push to delay deporting illegal-migrant criminals imposes huge costs on taxpayers.” (Sunday, September 20, 2026)
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Research by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) showed that murders with illegally modified Glocks were rarer than fatal lightning strikes. By comparison, the National Weather Service confirmed 81 fatal lightning strikes since the start of 2021...
New Survey: Voters by a 51.4% to 35.7% Margin Support Armed Teachers, Parents with Children in K-12 Support by an Even Larger 57.3% to 30.2% Margin
The CPRC hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey 1,000 general election voters on August 25th, 2026 (cross tabs available here) regarding general election voters' views on allowing teachers to carry concealed handguns at schools. While voters...
Ann Coulter on the Crime Prevention Research Center’s Estimates of the Cost of Prosecuting Illegals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNgXapt_2bo Ann Coulter on the Crime Prevention Research Center's Estimates of the Cost of Prosecuting Illegals. The original research is available here and here.















