Dr. John Lott's newest piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer starts this way: Last week, government officials banned most carry-on electronic devices from U.S.-bound flights originating in more than a dozen Middle Eastern and African countries. The reason was due to an...
On Friday, North Dakota's Republican Governor Doug Burgum signed legislation making their state the 14th that allows carrying without a concealed handgun permit. The bill had passed the legislature with overwhelming majorities (34 to 13 in the state Senate...
Dr. John Lott has been giving multiple talks in March. One was on March 16th in Sonoma County, California to the Third Thursday group and another on March 24th in Corpus Christi, Texas at the Texas Lyceum. In both places, Dr. Lott talked about his latest book, "The...
Here is an interview that Dr. John Lott did with America's 1st Freedom: Discussion of so-called gun-free zones doesn’t make it onto the news much these days, so the truth can be hard to find. The reason why is simple: After high-profile shootings, the “mainstream”...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the New York Daily News on why NPR and PBS should not get public subsidies. It talks a little about NPR's biases in covering the gun issue. The piece starts this way: Whatever original purpose public broadcasting had back in 1969,...
Arkansas has become at least the 11th state that mandates that permitted guns can be carried on campus (Michigan requires that they be carried openly) and the 19th state that to allow them in state Capitols. For campus carry, the National Conference of State...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber about a bill by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) that will prevent anyone with a gun, ammunition, or magazines from falling outside of the law simply by passing through a state. A copy of the...
In January 2016, Dr. John Lott contacted the CDC to alert them to a mistake in their numbers for 2014 on accidental gun deaths. The total was clearly a 100 larger than it actually was (the error arose because of mistakes in Tennessee's data, and the mistake...
On March 10th, Rachael Joseph, the Director of Outreach for Protect Minnesota and who works with Bloomberg's Everytown, had a piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune attacking Dr. John Lott. The piece was supposedly about Lott's op-ed on Stand Your...
This video was obtained from KHQ Channel 6 television. On March 15th, 2017, the Florida State Attorney's Office released a video of Ashad Russell, a Florida resident with a concealed handgun permit, fatally shooting another man, Edward Strother, who was attacking a...
Dr. John Lott was on the Lars Larson Show to talk about the continued high rate of gun sales after the election. (Thursday, March 16, 2017, 8:21 to 8:30 PM)
Aviation Pros, March 9, 2017 (Helping the media putting numbers in perspective by providing the total number of concealed handgun permit holders.) Gun discoveries at the nation's airports jumped 28 percent between 2015 and last year when 3,391 firearms made it to...