The audio of the interview that I did with George Noory is available here. Click on table to enlarge it. Gun sales on path for near record sales, Ferguson stories might be helping increase, but sales were already high for the year The FBI NICS checks are on path for...
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CPRC in the New York Daily News: “Dangerous distortions about cops shooting black men: An oft-cited figure is based on incomplete data and questionable math”
John Lott's newest piece at the New York Daily News starts this way: Exaggerations have poisoned discussions about relations between blacks and the police. “Black men between the ages of 15 and 19 are 21 times as likely as whites to be killed by a police officer,”...
CPRC on Bill Martinez Live: Discussing Ferguson fall out
John Lott was on the Bill Martinez Live to discuss the fall out after the Ferguson verdict was released (show went from 9:20 to 9:45 AM, Tuesday, December 2, 2014). Martinez's show airs in over 250 markets. Part 1: Part 2:
CPRC in the news on Bloomberg’s Everytown gun control claims to talk about at Thanksgiving dinner
For the second year in a row, Michael Bloomberg's Everytown has tried to get people to talk about gun control during Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, the claims that Bloomberg wants people to talk to this year are no more accurate (see “Talking Turkey...
Some of the Errors in John Donohue’s Research on Guns
There are many errors of different types in John Donohue's research. There are some errors in the data set that ADZ produced. For example, • The observations for county 2060 in Alaska are repeated 73 times for 1996. . • The first full year of the shall-issue...
CPRC in the news on concealed handgun laws in Louisiana
The Times-Picayune discusses the Louisiana's concealed handgun law: A study by Crime Prevention Research Center, a gun-carrying advocacy site, looked at permit data from 2007-2013. It showed for each 1 percentage point increase in the adult population holding permits...
CPRC in the news on claims that the background check system would be fixed if only more names of prohibited people were included
AWR Hawkins with Breitbart News has this: Breitbart News spoke with Crime Prevention Research Center president John Lott about the suggestion that a lack of information is allowing the wrong people to slip through our current background check system. Lott suggested...
CPRC in the Washington Post: “‘New’ research on gun laws and crime was flawed”
The CPRC has a letter to the editor today at the Washington Post that discusses a recent working paper that was discussed in the Post on November 14th. Dear Letters Editor: Christopher Ingraham’s “More Guns, More Crime” ignored research critical of a slightly updated,...
CPRC on Cam & Co to talk about gun laws and crime rates
In an attempt to control high murder rates, Russia is starting to allow concealed carry
From the International Business Times: Russia, which according to official figures has the fifth highest murder rate in the world, has relaxed its gun ownership laws. Previously, Russians were only allowed to own firearms for hunting or target practice, but under the...
CPRC in Investor’s Business Daily: “America Should Make It Easier To Carry Guns”
John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily discusses what Americans can learn from Israel about stopping terrorism. The piece starts this way: Terrorism is forcing Israel to let civilians carry guns in even the most sensitive religious areas in the wake of...
CPRC on KIRO radio to discuss concealed handguns and crime
Here is a radio interview that John Lott had on the Jason Rantz radio show on November 19, 2014 on KIRO AM (710 in Seattle).