Fifty-eight state legislators in Maryland have signed a letter to the Governor Larry Hogan demanding that the state close gun stores in the state. The ability of gun stores to remain open during this pandemic is worrisome for many Marylanders. Less than two weeks ago,...
Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. and our research director, Professor Carlisle E. Moody, have published a new research paper at Econ Journal Watch for an international comparison of mass public shootings. Abstract Adam Lankford (2016) claims that the United States accounted for...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall.com on the massive increase in gun sales in March. March saw the biggest gun sales on record. And with many states and local governments shutting down gun stores in March, there were clearly many people who wanted guns but...
Dr. John Lott talked to George Noory on Coast to Coast AM about whether gun dealers are "essential" businesses. (Tuesday, March 31, 2020, from 1:04 to 1:07 AM) The show is listened to by 10.5 million people.
The number of NICS checks involving gun sales was 2.3 million in March. There is no month that comes even close to these sales, even when sales were booming during the Obama presidency. Compare it to March 2019 where the sales were 1.2 million or March 2018 where the...
TV shows continually illustrate criminals using machine guns. In this story that spans an episode of two separate CBS shows on the FBI, white supremacists kidnap a school bus full of young children using AR-15s (FBI S2 E18 and FBI Most Wanted S1 E9 March 24, 2020)....
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall about the fundamental differences in how Democrats and Republicans handle the Coronavirus crisis. If you want to see the difference in how President Trump and the Democrats handle the coronavirus, you don’t have to look any...