Here is a copy of the Amicus brief that the Crime Prevention Research Center has submitted in the case of United States v. Rahimi is available here. Abstract If people who are subject to a civil restraining order are dangerous, prohibiting them from possessing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ondanQBzw0w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNhzfeq3-rw “A married Pennsylvania state trooper was arrested after allegedly falsely committing his ex-girlfriend to a mental health facility and assaulting the woman, prosecutors...
Fagan argues we must reduce the supply of firearms, not the supply of black market guns or guns in criminal hands, but guns in general. As we have pointed out many times, if such a claim was correct, that guns on net are bad, murder rates should fall whenever all guns...
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=9RJrqey0d3I We will soon put up the video from the talk. A copy of the PowerPoint is available here, but the slides are also shown below.
Dr. John Lott appeared on the Greg Belfrage Show on KELO-AM to discuss his new op-ed at The Federalist on the lawsuit filed by Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown. They also talked about media bias on guns and mass shooters. (Tuesday, September 5, 2023)
"Wonder Woman 1984" was released on December 25, 2020, and it has a standard line in so many television and movies where characters say that they hate guns. Here is a video on Hollywood’s bias against guns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeijIDuksc4&t=1s
Dr. John Lott appeared on The Bill Martinez Show to discuss his new piece at Real Clear Politics about our newest report on errors in the FBI Active Shooting Reports. The FBI data on active shootings is missing so many defensive gun uses that it’s hard to believe...
The system is facing "massive wait times." One has to wonder if gun control advocates view this as a positive part of the law. In New York, background checks are now required to buy ammunition, and background check requests will go through the state police instead of...
Dr. John Lott talked to the guest host John Hayward on the Alan Nathan Show about his new op-ed piece at Townhall titled "On Biden’s Newest False Claims About Guns." (Tuesday, August 29, 2023, from 11:50 to 11:58 AM MT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRM2lUgClo8&t=3s Dr. John Lott talked to One America News about an op-ed that Lott wrote with Congressman Thomas Massie (KY-R) at Newsweek titled: "Biden’s Gun Control Law Will Radically Change U.S. Gun Ownership."
"Father calls police to report a child sex predator preying on his 11-year-old daughter. Police show up 6 hours later and threaten to arrest an 11-year-old little girl." This is pretty shocking. I understand you want to discourage children from engaging in giving...