A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2022 are available here. Abstract Despite the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen affirming a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W8CFYKkPEU Dr. John Lott testified before the US Civil Rights Commission on federal efforts to gather data on racial and ethnic disparities. He was on Panel 4: Researcher & Policy Experts. Dr. Lott was the only person on...
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Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Hill newspaper. Unfortunately, the editors made changes in my piece without my permission. The changed my statement of 94% of mass public shootings occurring in gun-free zones to an "enormous amount." There were other similar...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics on the Supreme Court's case that will be heard in oral arguments today. How certain should we be that someone did something wrong before they lose their right to own a gun? Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear a...
Kerry Slone, CPRC's director of education, has her first piece at the Wall Street Journal on an important Supreme Court case that will have oral arguments on Tuesday. . You wouldn’t want to live next door to Zackey Rahimi. According to court documents, he...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. With the mass murder of 18 people in Maine on Wednesday, gun control advocates are calling for more gun control laws. Right at the top of the list is a so-called Red Flag Law. Vice President Kamala Harris has already called...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. The piece was also published at Zero Hedge, Pintudeerah News, and News ND. On Monday, in a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court voted without comment to allow the Biden administration’s regulations on...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist on a Supreme Court decision on Monday. . The lower the threshold for taking away a person’s guns, the more likely it is that guns will be taken away from innocent people. . The Supreme Court has now received all the...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at the Washington Times. By the way, there was a kibbutz where civilians were armed and they were able to hold of the terrorist attack. . Hamas attacked as Israelis were wrapping up the seven-day-long Jewish festival of Sukkot on...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at The Federalist. . Gun control advocates keep telling us that there is 90-plus percent support in polls for expanded background checks, but the support is much less solid than the media and gun control advocates would have you...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W8CFYKkPEU Dr. John Lott testified before the US Civil Rights Commission on federal efforts to gather data on racial and ethnic disparities. He was on Panel 4: Researcher & Policy Experts. Dr. Lott was the only person on...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc85xTZIjtU On October 24th, Dr. John Lott gave a talk at Tufts University to their Federalist Society. The talk was on gun control laws that discriminate against minorities and the poor. The audio is available here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIMdBmpZwtI Last month, the governor of New Mexico issued a temporary public health order restricting the carrying of firearms in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County. The bipartisan pushback against this order was swift, and she later...
https://youtu.be/Q2RdL_SAlAw Dr. John Lott appeared on NewsMax’s Chris Salcedo Show to discuss a human rights lawsuit filed on behalf of the parents of Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver by Global Action on Gun Violence against the United States...
Dr. John Lott appeared on The Michigan Talk Network with Steve Gruber to discuss his new op-ed at Real Clear Politics on the Supreme Court’s case United States v. Zackey Rahimi, which could have a major impact on how courts evaluate the constitutionality of gun...
Dr. John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center, appeared on the Talk Back program for an hour to discuss many crime and gun control topics, including the latest Supreme Court case, United States v. Rahimi, and biased media coverage on mass public...
Our latest annual report on concealed handgun permits got prominent coverage in the Washington Times. More than half of the states now allow residents to carry concealed guns without a permit, leading to a sea change in gun habits, according to a study by the leading...
Fox News has a news story about our latest annual concealed carry permit report. FIRST ON FOX: The number of concealed carry permit holders in the U.S. dropped slightly this year, but the number of Americans carrying a concealed firearm has likely increased overall...
A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2022 are available here. Abstract Despite the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen affirming a...