Dr. John Lott and Congressman Thomas Massie have a new op-ed at Newsweek on important new research from the CPRC. A frequent talking point in the gun control debate is that Americans overwhelmingly support "common sense" gun control measures, such as universal...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-IncBq5eKM California has a strict assault weapon ban, and handguns were used in both attacks, but Biden seems to think that solution to these attacks is to have a ban across the whole country. The handgun used in Monterey Park may...
Under the label of "assault-style" weapon, the Canadian government plans to ban a broad range of semi-automatic rifles. They have already prohibited the sale or transfer of these guns, but now comes the mandatory confiscation. Public Safety Minister Bill Blair claims...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to vacate lower court rulings in several gun rights cases and remand them back to lower courts for review “in light of” last week’s landmark 6-3 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen. Among these cases...
Professor Carl Moody and Dr. John Lott have written up some comments on the latest Donohue et al. paper on concealed carry. For some perspective, you can see the academic literature on the issue here and the Amicus brief that we filed with a literature survey here....
Predictit.org has betting on whether the Senate will pass a gun control bill by June 30th. As of Wednesday, June 15th, the odds were somewhat against it passing.
You would think that the Heller and MacDonald U.S. Supreme Court decisions would prevent states from banning all handguns in a state, but California's microstamping regulation will soon move to ban all handguns. The irony is that if the Supreme Court strikes down the...
Brazil DataDownload When Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro promised to ease gun regulations and let more people own guns the media and the “experts” they talked to thought it would lead to more homicides/murders. Well, it didn’t turn out that way. Things are still...
While some focus on Biden's nominee to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Saule Omarova, education in the former Soviet Union and claims that she is a Marxist, she is in favor of using the “debanking” of what she called “socially sub-optimal...
The Taliban are collecting weapons and ammunition from civilians in Kabul following their swift takeover of Afghanistan.A Taliban official told Reuters that people no longer needed weapons for personal protection because “they can now feel safe” since the...
Dr. John Lott joined Steve Gruber to discuss the 2 million people who are now on the Terror Watch List and Democrats' desire to ban people on the list from buying guns. America's Voice Live Wed August 25 2021 from 1216 to 1212 PM
The president has the power to ban the importation of guns and ammunition, and he is exercising it for ammunition. This new rule will make already costly and difficult to obtain ammunition even more difficult to find. This is part of Biden's policy to reduce gun...