The CPRC hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey 1,000 general election voters on May 19th, 2026 (cross tabs available here), regarding whether likely voters carry concealed handguns. In the survey, 13.2% carry all/most of the time, with another 16.6%...
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Muslims Dramatically Overrepresented in France’s Prisons
Sociology Professor Farhad Khosrokhavar (a leading expert who has studied French prisons extensively, including in sensitive urban areas) estimates Muslims comprise roughly 40%-50% of the overall prison population nationally, with higher shares (often 50–70%+) in...
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At the Federalist: New Jersey Uses Glock Lawsuit To Build The Gun Registry that Would then Immediately be Used to Confiscate Guns Politicians Always Denied Wanting
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. . For those concerned that background checks will eventually be used to create gun registries that can later facilitate confiscation, they need only look at what is happening now in New Jersey. New Jersey’s Attorney...
At Real Clear Politics: Gun Background Checks Are Failing the Wrong People
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. . The background check system for gun purchases is a mess. Republicans have criticized Democratic presidents for failing to prosecute people denied gun purchases through background checks. Democrats have leveled...
At The Federalist: No, Gun Control Wouldn’t Have Prevented The Latest Trump Assassination Attempt
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at The Federalist. . Summary: If policymakers and advocates are serious about reducing such incidents, the focus needs to shift toward measures that directly address the factors involved. . As is so typical, just hours after the...
At Real Clear Politics: Political Violence and the Willful Self-Deception of the Left
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics on the claims that the violence is coming from the right. It was also reprinted at Zero Hedge, Yahoo! News, MSN, The Ohio Press Network, Goodoil News, American Partisan, and Fairfield Times, Great Falls Leader, and...
In the New Hampshire Union Leader: ‘Gun-free’ Campuses are a Peril
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the Union Leader with New Hampshire state Representative Samuel Farrington (R), who is the primary sponsor of the Campus Carry bill that will be voted on this coming week in the state Senate Judiciary Committee. . News media coverage...
At the Washington Times: New Virginia gun law sets stage for ban
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Washington Times. . On Friday, Virginia Governor Spanberger signed legislation that bans the manufacture, sale, and possession of so-called “ghost guns”—homemade firearms without serial numbers. The law offers no...
At Real Clear Politics: Why Military Bases Should Never Have Been Gun-Free Zones
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. It was also published at The Blaze and Zero Hedge. . It may sound hard to believe, but except for a very limited group of personnel, the military has treated its bases as gun-free zones. Until Thursday, only...
At the New York Post: The whole world laughs at Democrats’ lame voter-ID claims
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at the New York Post on the debate over the SAVE Act. There were at least 815 comments on the piece at the New York Post website and they published a letter on it in Sunday's paper. It was also picked up at Real Clear Politics, Hot...
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Talk in Houston: The FBI Crime Data is a Politicized Mess
Dr. John Lott gave a talk in Houston on April 17th, 2026 titled "The FBI Crime Data is a Politicized Mess." The audio here isn't perfect,, but hopefully between the audio and the PowerPoint the main message will get across. This audio missed the first 10 minutes of...
Talk at the Cooley Law School in Michigan on the Problems with Government Crime Data
Dr. John Lott gave a talk at the Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan about errors in the FBI crime data. The PowerPoint slides that correspond with the audio is available here. Talk at Cooley Law SchoolDownload
Talks in Houston at the the George R. Brown Convention Center on April 17th, 18th, and 19th: THE FBI CRIME DATA IS POLITICIZED AND A MESS and GUN CONTROL MYTHS
In the George R. Brown Convention Center, Dr. John Lott will be giving the following talks. Sessions GUN CONTROL MYTHS Friday, April 17 • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Level 3, 371CF THE FBI CRIME DATA IS POLITICIZED AND A MESS Friday, April 17 • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM , Level 3,...
Media Appearances
On Armed American Radio: To Discuss Failed Gun Background Checks
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on the Armed American Radio show about America’s broken federal gun background check system, Second Amendment rights, ATF overreach, and the truth behind firearm statistics that the mainstream media refuses to discuss. They broke...
On The Armed Citizen: Frank Miniter talks to economist and author of “More Guns, Less Crime” John Lott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo2VFJKld8U Dr. John Lott talked to Frank Miniter about the drop in crime rates during 2025. . If the gun-control Left is to be believed, then the murder rate in the U.S. should be going up, up, up; after all, gun sales and ownership...
On Stinchfield Tonight on Real America’s Voice: Gun Background Checks Are Failing
https://youtu.be/5_a_ApsgvrM Dr. John Lott Jr. appeared on Stinchfield Tonight on Real America’s Voice to discuss his new piece at Real Clear Politics titled "Gun Background Checks Are Failing the Wrong People." (Tuesday, May 12, 2026, from 7:35 to 7:42 PM ET)
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How many people have been murdered with Glock-style guns using Glock switches? About 40 total over the five years from 2021 to 2025?
We have tried to do an exhaustive search on cases where a Glock-style gun with a switch was used to murder people, but it is quite possible that we have missed some cases. The total that we have so far found is 40 murders from 17 attacks where someone was murdered, so...
Videos of Renee Goode hitting ICE Agent with her car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E36XnTGryYU Here are videos from Fox News Live, CNN, and Sky New showing the interaction between Renee Good and the ICE agent who shot her. "The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot Renee Good last week in...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 33 Cases During October 2025
Atlanta, Georgia, October 1, 2025 (11 Alive) Atlanta police said one person who was threatening another person with a knife was shot. That person's injuries were not life-threatening, police said. The altercation happened around 4:20 a.m. at the Pilot gas station in...

















