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% carrying...
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...
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.
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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...
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...
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...
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, The Ohio Press Network, Goodoil News, American Partisan, and Fairfield Times, Great Falls Leader, and Sun...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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,...
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)
https://youtu.be/jONzKG-ySxw?si=APxy-sz84gxh2J6D Dr. John Lott talked to John Hines on One America News about the renewed national debate over gun control following the attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Dr. Lott argued that proposed new gun control...
Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin about his new op-ed at Real Clear Politics on the claims that the violence is coming from the right. (Friday, May 1, 2026) Vicki’s show covers most of Wisconsin and part of the Minneapolis...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nzpD8B-z0zY Spencer Pratt, who is running to be the mayor of Los Angeles, said he bought a gun during the height of his reality TV fame on The Hills, when he was receiving numerous death threats. In a May 2026 CNN interview, he...
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% carrying...
There continue to be claims that the two male shooters at the San Diego mosque were involved in some type of romantic relationship, with one of the murderers being transgender. While the speculation might be completely undeserved, a concern is that the media has...
