John Lott's interview with the newspaper is shown in the last column. We will try to put up a translation later.
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Correcting some of the errors in Obama’s address on executive actions on guns
Here are some false claims from Obama's address yesterday. Amazingly, even though Obama is engaged in obvious cherry-picking of facts and examples, the ones that he brings up are wrong. The quotes from his address are indented and in italics. But we are the only...
CPRC in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Allow permit holders to carry guns on college campuses”
John Lott's op-ed with Michael Gordinier, who teaches at Washington University in St. Louis, was published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (January 06, 2016): Would posting a “gun-free zone” sign in front of your home make you feel safer? Probably not. Criminals don’t...
CPRC on the WSJ’s Opinion Journal: Gun Control for Liberals
Opinion Journal’s Mary Kissel and Crime Research Center President John Lott on President Obama’s gun control measures. Click on screen shots to enlarge.
New CPRC Research: “Do Background Checks on Private Gun Transfers help Stop Mass Public Shootings?”
Today President Obama addressed the issue of mass public shootings and background checks. From the Fox News article today discussing our new study: The report, published by the Crime Prevention Research Center on Jan. 2, argues that not only are background checks...
Obama’s regulations will prevent some law-abiding people from owning guns
During the 1990s, President Clinton imposed fees and regulations that caused most Federally licensed firearm dealers to give up their licenses. The first graph here provides an indication exactly how draconian those changes were. This drop occurred despite a large...
Record Gun Sales in 2015, over 2 million more background checks than previous highest year
Click on table to enlarge picture. Original source available here. That is about a 10 percent increase over the previous highest year, 2013.
CPRC testimony discussed in the Australian Senate’s report “Ability of Australian law enforcement authorities to eliminate gun-related violence in the community”
Among the Australian Senate's recommendations: The majority of Senators attending the inquiry recommend State and territory governments investigate avenues to decrease regulation of the firearm industry to ease the economic burden on governments, industry and legal...
CPRC on the Jim Bohannon Radio Show discussing new gun laws going into effect in Texas and California
John Lott joined Jim Bohannon to discuss new gun control laws that are going into effect in California and Texas (Thursday, December 30, 2015 from 10:32 to 11:00 PM). Jim has a radio audience of over 2.75 million people.
Why the so-called Charleston gun purchase Loophole wasn’t a loophole (Hillary Clinton’s misstatements about Charleston and Virginia Tech)
On December 29th, Hillary Clinton pushed again for closing the so-called "Charleston loophole" (see Hillary Clinton at 24:45 into the video). Very often we don't have real time information. Because we also have to close what is called the Charleston loophole, where...
CPRC on KABC in Los Angeles to discuss California’s new gun control laws
John Lott appeared on the giant 50,000 Watt KABC in Los Angeles to discuss two new California gun control laws. One that will ban concealed handgun permit holders from carrying their guns on school property and the other one dealing with removing guns from people...
CPRC at Fox News: “Open carry comes to Texas: Why the Lone Star state will be safer in 2016”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: With about 900,000 concealed handgun permit holders in Texas, there is a good chance that someone next you in a Lone Star State grocery store or restaurant is carrying a concealed handgun. Starting Friday, Texas...