The Washington Times article started this way: Nearly 14.5 million Americans are now licensed to carry a concealed handgun — a jump of 1.73 million in just a year, according to new research that says women and black Americans are among the most eager to sign up. More...
UPDATE: Our newest annual study is available here. Original: The CPRC has new issue of our annual report on the number of concealed handgun permits in the US. A copy of the report is available here. Some updated numbers are shown at the bottom of this post. Past...
Dr. John Lott's newest piece at National Review starts this way: Democrats keep using shootings of police officers to push for more gun control. Having just arrived in Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention, the Reverend Jesse Jackson complained on...
Dr. John Lott talked to host Don Dubuc about a recent poll by the National Association of Chiefs of Police and another 2013 survey by PoliceOne show strong support for gun ownership (Friday, July 22, 2016 from 12:10 to 12:30 PM).
Shots Fired When the subject is guns, politics trumps history. AUG 01, 2016 | By JOHN R. LOTT JR. Pamela Haag calls gun makers “merchants of death." And America's love affair with guns, she says, didn't really start until the late 1800s, when the "merchants of death"...
86.4% of the US's Chiefs of Police and Sheriffs "support nationwide recognition of state issued concealed weapon permits." 76% of those same heads of departments believe that "qualified, law-abiding armed citizens help law enforcement reduce violent criminal...
Augusta, Maine, June 26, 2016 (WCSH, NBC Channel 6 in Portland) Augusta Police say two bystanders legally armed with handguns stepped in during a shooting incident at a Walmart in Augusta. Police say four suspects were taken into custody by police Sunday after...
"We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book." — Barack Obama on Tuesday, July 12th, 2016 in a speech at a memorial service in Dallas Both Washington Post and...
In an article that spends most of its time quoting gun control advocates' claims that gun ownership leads to suicide, one paragraph at the end of their long piece offered an alternative view by John Lott. These laws are wrongfully “assuming guns actually contribute to...
Dr. John Lott talked to Larry Elder on his national radio show about a recent article in the Los Angeles Times that claimed that defensive gun use in stopping mass public shootings was a myth. (Tuesday, July 12, 2016, 7:32 to 7:50 PM). Larry Elder: "John Lott...
Dr. John Lott had a letter to the editor in the Los Angeles Times responding to an error filled op-ed by gun control advocates Evan DeFilippis and Devin Hughes, who appear to be part of the Bloomberg funded gun control network. To the editor: Evan DeFilippis’ and...
Dr. John Lott talked to Jim Bohannon about Obama's push for gun control in the aftermath of the shooting deaths of five police officers in Dallas. (Monday, July 11, 2016, 10:05 to 11:00 PM) Jim Bohannon's show is listened to by over 2.75 million people.