Digital Journal, November 12, 2015
John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center spoke with Fox News. “It was clear 10 years ago that this program was not going to work,” he said. “Millions were spent on funding this program, money that could have been better used for actual police and law-enforcement resources.”
Lott pointed out that while the state spent about $60 on cataloging and storing each gun’s shell casing in the database, legally purchased guns were not the ones used by criminals. The software itself was also problematic because of erroneous data entries and other inadequacies, often causing the program to spit out hundreds of “matches” for each casing tested. . . .
The Daily Caller, November 9, 2015
Why? Because so many people stopped are guilty of nothing. And wannabe murderers with clean records just go shopping. Or those with records shop elsewhere. Or hire friends to do it for them, or “just ask their coke whores,” a police lieutenant once told me about that common straw-buyer scheme.
According to the Crime Prevention Research Center, most of the denials are false positives. The numbers back that up. It’s what happens when people lose their rights without a trial, lawyers, and ability to hear the charges and defend themselves. The ACLU prides itself upon defenses against that, where are they? The FBI brought a mere 44 cases in 2010, and managed only 13 convictions out of 76,000 supposedly legal rights-denials. What a scam. . . .
Ammoland, November 9, 2015
BayNet.com, November 11, 2015
“It was clear 10 years ago that this program was not going to work,” John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center told FoxNews.com. “Millions were spent on funding this program, money that could have been better used for actual police and law-enforcement resources.”
Lott even predicted that the program would fail over a decade ago in an op-ed piece in the National Review in February 2005. Even though the state spent approximately $60 per gun to catalog each firearm’s unique ballistic signature, critics, including Lott, said legally purchased guns were typically not the ones wielded by criminals. They also said the program suffered from widespread erroneous entry of data and the inadequate software often resulted in hundreds of “matches” being found for each casing tested. . . .
Newser, November 11, 2015, KTRH radio (Houston), November 13, 2015
Since 2000, more than 300,000 bullet casings have piled up in an old fallout shelter in Pikesville, Maryland, the result of an ambitious program launched to catalog the casings in a database, which would then be used to help solve crimes, per the Baltimore Sun. But 15 years and $5 million later, the program has been deemed a failure—not a single crime was said to have been solved with the database’s assistance—and the “ballistics fingerprinting” law was repealed on Oct. 1. Parris Glendening, whose administration set up the database while he was governor, is sad to see the demise of his brainchild. “Obviously, I’m disappointed,” he tells the Sun. But a local gun-shop owner in Anne Arundel County describes the initiative as “a waste,” and gun rights advocate John Lott tells Fox News, “[The] money … could have been better used for actual police and law-enforcement resources . . .
Detroit Free Press, October 29, 2015
Gun-free zones and those supporting them create the environment for a criminal to “shoot up the place,” he added. Green also cited John Lott’s 1997 study “Crime, Deterrence, and the Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns,” which asserted that armed citizens deter violent crime without increasing accidental deaths. Lott spoke in favor of the bill during the committee hearing earlier this month, Green said.
Lott’s study has been widely contested since its release. All but one of a National Research Council 18-member panel evaluating the study’s claims in 2005 found inadequate evidence for Lott’s conclusions, according to a paper published in 2012 by researchers from Stanford University. . . .
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