The audio of John Lott's interview on Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory is available here. Lott was in the news segment for 3 minutes to discuss the Obama administration implementing his executive orders on background checks.
Year: 2014
CPRC at Investor’s Business Daily on the 20th Anniversary of the Brady Law: “Brady Law Has Done Little To Keep Guns Out Of Criminals’ Hands”
The Brady Law stops law-abiding Americans, not criminals, from getting guns. John Lott's piece at Investor's Business Daily starts this way: Last Friday marked the 20th anniversary of the so-called Brady Law, a federal gun control in honor of James Brady, Ronald...
CPRC on KRLA in Los Angeles to discuss 9th Circuit decision striking down California’s concealed handgun law
The audio from Sunday, February 23, 2014 on their Sunday Morning Newsmakers show is available here.
Two talks this week
John Lott will be at Texas Tech University Law School from noon to 1:30 on Wednesday, March 5th and at St. Mary's Law School in San Antonio, Texas from noon to 1:30 on Thursday, March 6th.
CPRC on NRA News
CPRC was on NRA News to discuss Bloomberg's false claims about how the 1996 budget Amendment on CDC research impact firearms research. The audio of that interview from Friday, February 28th is available here.
CPRC at Fox News: “Don’t believe mainstream media mistruths about firearms research”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: If we are to believe the mainstream media, the powerful NRA has used its political muscle to keep people ignorant of how guns impact our safety. They are supposedly to blame for the elimination of firearms...
MYTH: FIREARMS RESEARCH FELL AFTER THE NRA RESTRICTIONS ON FEDERAL FUNDING
The CPRC is proud to release a new study that is available here. Here is part of a news story on the report from Fox News: A forthcoming study is challenging claims, repeated over and over in the media, that federal restrictions effectively froze gun research over the...
CPRC on the Sportsman TV Channel: Two interviews discussing various gun control claims
The audio of an interview from Tuesday, February 18th is available here. The audio of an interview from Friday, February 21st is available here.
CPRC on Piers Morgan’s cancelation at CNN
CPRC's president, John Lott, has been on Piers Morgan's CNN show many times. With Morgan's announcement yesterday that his show was being cancelled, John Lott wrote a piece for the National Review Online. The piece starts this way: Sunday’s announcement that Piers...
An exchange in Scientific American over the academic literature on concealed carry and background checks
This is the second exchange in the letters section of Scientific American that John Lott has had with Michael Shermer in the last year. Of course, the single paper that Shermer cites was mentioned and discussed at length in the review of the literature that Lott...
Obama’s impact on US gun sales, a warning about using NICS checks to measure gun sales
Gun sales have exploded under the Obama administration even while crime rates have fallen. Jason Riley has recently made that point in the Wall Street Journal. NICS checks for guns are a rather imperfect measure of gun sales. People can buy multiple guns with one...
CPRC at Fox News: Media cherry picks Missouri gun data to make misleading case for more control
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News discusses the forthcoming study in the Journal of Urban Health that has been getting a lot of media attention. His piece starts this way: With headlines claiming “Study Shows Gun Control Works,” media outlets such as CBS, MSNBC,...