Dr. John Lott was on Kansas' KSAL Morning News w/Jeff Garretson to discuss the politicization of research and to figure out whether researchers are being honest with you as well as what the Biden administration is doing to make gun ownership difficult and costly....
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Washington Times responding to claims that Trump lied about election fraud. Last week, during Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, we were told that his offense was “the big lie” that the election was stolen. That “big lie” is...
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. This episode of CBS’s NCIS LA (Season 12, Episode 8, January 10, 2021) has an agent warn: “those are...
“Ghost guns” are homemade guns. It is already illegal to sell these guns because they don’t have serial numbers. Guns are pretty simple items to build. You can build a shotgun with a few pipes and a nail. Requiring background checks on all parts of guns has...
Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson on his national radio show about how the what is House Bill 127 and what are Biden's plans for classifying semi-auto rifles as Class III weapons. Lars Larson’s National show is listened to by over 1.25 million...
Dr. John Lott appeared on both the Lars Larson National and Northwest Radio Shows to discuss his latest op-ed piece at Townhall on the Senate impeachment trial. Hint: the answer to the question is "no." (Friday, February 12, 2021) The Northwest show appears on 21...
On CBS's Magnum PI (S3 E8 February 12 2021), a twelve-year-old steals his father's gun from a bedside table and accidentally shoots his ten-year-old brother. The message is parents should be afraid of guns in the home even if the parent is at home. But this again...
Dr. John Lott talked to KNRS’s Clark Aposhian about Salt Lake County requiring Universal Background Checks for the private transfer of guns. (Saturday, February 6, 2021, from 5:35 to 5:45 PM)
Now that Democrats control both Congress and the presidency they have been explaining how they are going be able to get gun control legislation passed. With Michael Bloomberg having spent over $600 million pushing for Biden to become president (over $125 million just...
Dr. John Lott joined the show to discuss Biden's initial moves on gun control as well as Utah and Montana adopting Constitutional Carry. (Monday, February 8, 2021, from 6:35 to 6:46 PM)
Suspect's iPhone used to slave the arson of two police cars Forbes reports how iCloud data from a suspect's iPhone 7 allowed the FBI, to apprehend a man accused of firebombing two police cars in Seattle. The firebombing took place on May 30th, 2020. The...
With the impeachment trial going in the Senate, Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall.com. Former-president Donald Trump’s Senate trial for his January 6 speech “inciting” a riot at the US Capitol rests on the claim that he lied about vote fraud in the November...