In 16 Constitutional Carry states, you don't need a permit to carry in the state, and in Montana, you don't need a permit to carry in about 99.4% of the state. But in the rest of the country, you need a permit to carry concealed. Partial list of states (We will update...
Dr. John Lott has this new op-ed at the Washington Times. A few Democratic governors have sought to build a more positive relationship with President Trump amid the coronavirus crisis, but Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has chosen to lead her party’s drumbeat of...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about whether gun stores ‘Essential’ businesses? Yes, especially when police aren't responding to calls and jails and prisons are releasing inmates early. They discussed our work on the issue, which is...
Clearly neither the victims nor perpetrators of murders are "normal" people -- both groups are overwhelmingly criminals. Sixty-five percent of murders occurred for unknown reasons, and there were only 86 suspects for these 348 murders. Fifty-nine percent of murders...
Dr. John Lott talked to WIND’s Steve Cortez about state and local governments closing gun stores and our research on whether the Coronavirus is seasonal. (Monday, March 30, 2020, from 6:35 to 7:00 PM)
Dr. John Lott joined Vicki on the Vicki McKenna Show to discuss whether gun stores are "essential businesses." The Vicki McKenna Show that covers most of Wisconsin on WISN, WIBA, WMEQ Radio. (Thursday, March 26, 2020)
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)....