John Lott talked to Steve Gruber at the Michigan Talk Network on Tuesday, May 5th from 6:45 to 6:51 AM.
Year: 2015
CPRC at Fox News: “Designer of 3-D-printed gun challenges feds to Constitutional duel”
John Lott was interviewed by Fox News about the Obama administration's latest attempts to ban computer files that allow 3D printers to print guns. This isn't just plastic printers. The metal 3D printers can produce a gun that is identical in many ways to a gun that...
CPRC at Investors Business Daily: The same people who want to disarm police also want to disarm poor blacks
John Lott's newest piece at Investors Business Daily: Police aren't always there to protect people — not in Baltimore, not in Ferguson and not when the average person has to confront a criminal. This is particularly true in the poorest sections of town. Even police...
Correcting the record on David Hemenway’s claim that academics support gun control
David Hemenway wrote an op-ed that was originally published in the Los Angeles Times and then picked up in many other newspapers. The Los Angeles Times was unwilling to publish a letter that the CPRC sent in, but the Wisconsin State Journal did publish the letter in...
CPRC at Fox News: ‘Assault weapons’ debate: The folly of Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s buyback bill
John Lott's newest piece for Fox News starts this way: Gun control advocates introduced a bill in April that only gun control supporters could love. Connecticut Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro is so serious about getting so-called assault weapons off the street that she is...
CPRC at Fox News: “Baltimore riots and the price of protest”
John Lott's latest piece at Fox News starts this way: People have the right to protest, but too many politicians are afraid or unwilling to stop looting and rioting. The dividing line between liberals and conservatives could hardly be starker. When the St. Louis...
CPRC on Coast-to-Coast AM for two hours to discuss the Baltimore Riots
John Lott was on Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory (weekly audience >2.75 million) for two hours on Tuesday morning to discuss the riots in Baltimore. The audio for the first hour is available here (Tuesday, April 28th, 2015, 1:15 to 2 AM). The audio for the...
CPRC on the Michigan Talk Network to discuss academic views on guns and a lawsuit in Michigan about whether schools can ban open carry of guns
John Lott talked to Steve Gruber at the Michigan Talk Network about recent surveys of academics concerning their views on guns (Tuesday, April 28th, 2015 from 7:35 to 7:43 AM).
News coverage on Bloomberg’s research director’s refusal to debate with John Lott
John Lott's and Everytown's research director separate presentations on C-SPAN on Saturday highlighted Bloomberg's groups continued unwillingness to debate. There have been about a dozen instances over the last seven or eight years where producers will call John Lott...
Elderly man fortunate Bloomberg’s gun groups didn’t convince Kroger to ban guns
Last year, Michael Bloomberg's gun control organization launched a "six-figure ad campaign" pressuring Kroger to ban guns on its property. The extensive campaign had "print and digital ads in USA Today, the Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus Dispatch, Detroit Free Press,...
CPRC on the Jones Show to discuss the debate over gun control
John Lott was on the Alex Jones Show Monday, April 27, 2015 from 12:06 to 12:30 PM.
CPRC on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on people’s changing views on guns, Bloomberg’s research director explains why he won’t debate
From C-SPAN: "John Lott talked about the new study put out by Pew Research Center which finds that support for gun rights have increased and, for the first time, protecting gun rights is more important than controlling ownership." Lott was originally supposed to be on...