John Lott talked to C4 on WBAL in Baltimore about Obama's new gun control push (January 5, 2016 from 10:15 AM). John Lott talked to Trey Ware on KTSA in San Antonio about Obama's new gun control push (January 5, 2016). John Lott talked to Brian Thomas on KRC in...
Month: January 2016
CPRC on Los Angeles’ big talk radio station KABC to discuss Obama’s new gun regulations
John Lott talked to McIntyre in the morning about President Obama's new executive orders (Wednesday, January 6, 2015 from 9:15 to AM). During the next hour McIntyre had on someone from the other side and allowed her to make false claims about 40% of guns being bought...
CPRC on Fox News: “Obama and guns: Eleven false or misleading claims from the president’s remarks this week”
John Lott has a new op-ed at Fox News that discusses some of the errors in Obama's talk on Tuesday. With tears in his eyes, President Obama pulled out all the stops in pushing his new executive orders on gun control this week. A Washington Post headline exclaimed,...
CPRC interviewed by Fox News: “California school district doubles down on conceal carry policy, despite new state law”
Fox News has this article on a school district in California that is fighting to allow concealed handgun permit holders to continue carrying in their school. From Fox News: Weeks after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill barring concealed weapons on K-12 school grounds,...
CPRC on the Mark Levin Show: On Obama’s new executive gun control and Obama’s views on guns
John Lott talked to Mark Levin about Obama's new executive gun control measures (January 5, 2015 from 6:30 to 7:15 PM). This was an unusually long interview. Mark Levin: But as usual, I wanted to bring our go to guy on this, the number one expert in the country on...
CPRC interviewed in LA RAZÓN daily newspaper based in Madrid, Spain to discuss Obama’s executive actions on guns
John Lott's interview with the newspaper is shown in the last column. We will try to put up a translation later.
Correcting some of the errors in Obama’s address on executive actions on guns
Here are some false claims from Obama's address yesterday. Amazingly, even though Obama is engaged in obvious cherry-picking of facts and examples, the ones that he brings up are wrong. The quotes from his address are indented and in italics. But we are the only...
CPRC in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Allow permit holders to carry guns on college campuses”
John Lott's op-ed with Michael Gordinier, who teaches at Washington University in St. Louis, was published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (January 06, 2016): Would posting a “gun-free zone” sign in front of your home make you feel safer? Probably not. Criminals don’t...
CPRC on the WSJ’s Opinion Journal: Gun Control for Liberals
Opinion Journal’s Mary Kissel and Crime Research Center President John Lott on President Obama’s gun control measures. Click on screen shots to enlarge.
New CPRC Research: “Do Background Checks on Private Gun Transfers help Stop Mass Public Shootings?”
Today President Obama addressed the issue of mass public shootings and background checks. From the Fox News article today discussing our new study: The report, published by the Crime Prevention Research Center on Jan. 2, argues that not only are background checks...
Obama’s regulations will prevent some law-abiding people from owning guns
During the 1990s, President Clinton imposed fees and regulations that caused most Federally licensed firearm dealers to give up their licenses. The first graph here provides an indication exactly how draconian those changes were. This drop occurred despite a large...
Record Gun Sales in 2015, over 2 million more background checks than previous highest year
Click on table to enlarge picture. Original source available here. That is about a 10 percent increase over the previous highest year, 2013.