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 41 murders from 18 attacks where someone was murdered, so...
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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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, MSN, The Ohio Press Network, Goodoil News, American Partisan, and Fairfield Times, Great Falls Leader, and...
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 "Gun Control Myths." The audio here isn't perfect,, but hopefully between the audio and the PowerPoint the main message will get across. For those interested, there is also the book....
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
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...
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...
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)
It isn't too surprising that the countries that feel most threatened by Russia are the ones that are most keen on letting their citizens have and carry guns for protection. Interestingly, Czechia has had a relatively low homicide rate compare to other European...
Dr. John Lott gave a talk in Houston on April 17th, 2026 titled "Gun Control Myths." The audio here isn't perfect,, but hopefully between the audio and the PowerPoint the main message will get across. For those interested, there is also the book....
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 41 murders from 18 attacks where someone was murdered, so...
