Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall on the push in Washington, DC to let felons vote while they are still serving their sentence in prison. The piece starts this way: Washington, D.C.’s council seems posed to let felons vote while they are still...
In a startling California case, the federal government dropped charges against someone who had been manufacturing and selling guns without a manufacturer's license. The news article claims that the federal government dropped the case because they were worried that the...
A new survey from American Associate for Public Opinion Research shows that Americans are much more likely to think that mass shootings and other types of homicides make up a much larger share of total homicides than they do. The huge gap between how people think...
Eleven of Florida’s 67 county school districts have given classroom teachers the option to carry guns. Only seven of those eleven school districts have made their policy intensions public and they include: Bay, Gilchrist, Lafayette, Levy, Okeechobee, Putnam and...
Dr. John Lott has a piece at Broad & Liberty, a new opinion outlet in Philadelphia. Everyone wants to stop dangerous people from getting guns. The hot new policy option before this committee is Red Flag laws, which take away the guns of people deemed dangerous to...
Dr. John Lott was on the Vicki McKenna Show that covers most of Wisconsin (WISN, WIBA, WMEQ) to discuss the newly released FBI crime data and the increase in permitted concealed handguns. The Trump administration has reversed the increase in violent crime that we...
On Wednesday, October 2, 2019, MSNBC joined the Giffords and March for Our Lives gun control groups to put a a forum for the Democrat presidential candidates. Dr. John Lott talked to Alan Stock about the different gun control proposals that Democrats are offering....
Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson about our new report on the increase in concealed handgun permits. There are now 18.66 million concealed handgun permits in the US. (Thursday, October 3, 2019 for Larson's Northwest Radio Show, Friday, October 4, 2019 for Larson's...
US News & World Report, September 17, 2019 Banning all guns, including concealed weapons, would affect a significantly higher number of people, says Dave Workman, communications director for the Second Amendment Foundation and a senior editor for the group's...
Dr. John Lott talked to Larry Elder on his national radio show about a range of gun control issues. (Thursday, October 3, 2019, from 7:20 to 7:55 PM)
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Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall.com that starts this way: Each year brings a new record increase in the number of concealed handgun permits. The rate of growth in permits among women and minorities has far outpaced growth among white men. The data paint a...