UPDATE: Montana Governor Greg Gianforte Announces That He Has Talked To Secretary Of State Christi Jacobsen About Mail-In Vote Fraud Allegations In Missoula, Montana ORIGINAL: Dr. John Lott has an investigative piece on mail-in vote fraud in Montana. Some of the...
Original Post November 2, 2014: A 2012 survey of the literature in the University of Maryland Law Review is available here. Some of the peer-reviewed research showing that concealed carry laws reduce violent crime is listed here. This list includes papers using US...
The FBI claims that there were 27 active shooting cases in 2018 and 28 cases in 2019, but they have missed at least seven cases, with at least six cases where a concealed handgun permit holder stopped the attack. So there should be nine cases (14.52%) where people...
You can download a copy of our new research on international comparison of mass public shootings is available here. Please download and read it. Abstract The U.S. is well below the world average in terms of the number of mass public shootings, and the global increase...
Given all the concern about vote fraud, the CPRC investigated how other countries have handled the process. The paper is available for download here. Here is the abstract: Thirty-seven states have so far changed their mail-in voting procedures this year in response to...
The Social Science Research Network's eLibrary provides 947,686 research papers from 498,760 researchers in more than 50 disciplines. Dr. John Lott's work was the 48th most downloaded researcher over the last 12 months, and he is the 24th most downloaded researcher...
Clearly neither the victims nor perpetrators of murders are "normal" people -- both groups are overwhelmingly criminals. Sixty-five percent of murders occurred for unknown reasons, and there were only 86 suspects for these 348 murders. Fifty-nine percent of murders...
Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. and our research director, Professor Carlisle E. Moody, have published a new research paper at Econ Journal Watch for an international comparison of mass public shootings. Abstract Adam Lankford (2016) claims that the United States accounted for...
Schools that Allow Teachers to Carry Guns are Extremely Safe: Data on the Rate of Shootings and Accidents in Schools that allow Teachers to Carry Abstract After the Columbine school shooting 20 years ago, one of the more significant changes in how we protect students...
Multiple Victim Public Shootings
Yale University Law School Working Paper, October 19, 2000.
Lott, John R., Jr., Yale University Law School
Landes, William M. University of Chicago Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 73, 1999.
Lott, John R., Jr., University of Chicago Law School
Landes, William M. University of Chicago Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Safe Storage Gun Laws: Accidental Deaths, Suicides, and Crime
Yale Law School, Law & Economics Working Paper No. 237, 2000.
Lott, John R. University of Maryland Foundation, University of Maryland
Whitley, John E. University of Adelaide – School of Economics
National Instant Criminal Background Check System:
Fact vs. fiction on background checks and the gun control debate
Background checks have “no impact,” “zero” costs on law-abiding?
Tracking use of claim that 40% of gun sales take place without a background check
1968 Misdemeanor Conviction prevents U.S. Navy veteran from getting gun for self protection
One of the problems with background checks for gun purchases
More Problems with Brady Background Checks
The Problem with Brady Background Checks
What to make of the claim that 247 people on the terror watch list bought guns last year
Phantom gun control claims over the holes in the NICS background check system
NICS checks by state by month by year from 1998 to December 2010
Crime in Australia:
New Australian Study Shows More Guns, Less Crime
Gun smuggling in Australia, apparently the criminals are still obtaining guns
Some notes on claims about Australia’s crime rates
Gun permits almost double over last 5 years in New South Wales Australia
Australian gun regulations on murder
Crime in Ireland:
Some examples of the impact of gun bans on murder rates
Even more gun control in Ireland
So were Piers Morgan and Christiane Amanpour dishonest about crime rates last night?
Crime in Jamaica:
Some examples of the impact of gun bans on murder rates
So were Piers Morgan and Christiane Amanpour dishonest about crime rates last night?
Jamaica’s Bloody Lesson on Guns
Figure on Jamaica’s murder rate from the third edition of More Guns, Less Crime
Murder rates in Jamaica through the roof
Crime in Chicago:
Weren’t Chicago murder rates supposed to soar after the Supreme Court Decision?
“Gun Decision Was Product of University of Chicago”
Chicago has most murders of any city in the country
7th Circuit Appeals Court strikes down Chicago ban on gun ranges within the city limits
Chicago’s gang problem, role of cuts and changes in police policies
Alan Gura predicts that crime will drop if gun ownership allowed in Chicago
Chicago makes it even more costly to own a gun
Let’s Face It, Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley Wants to Ban Guns, All Guns
Crime in Washington, D.C.:
Updating the changes in DC’s crime rates since Heller
Vet loses guns to DC police as he travels through nation’s capital
DC drags feet on correcting false info on DC’s gun laws
Ask Canada — gun registration won’t make D.C. safer
Crime down after Supreme Court overturns city gun bans
DC reluctantly moves to remove some gun control laws
DC’s phony crime closure rates
Where is the ACLU in Chicago and DC gun fee cases?
“Shot down: D.C. residents unable to register handguns”
Just a reminder about DC and Chicago’s crime rate changes after the Supreme Court decisions
NY Times points to Times Square BOMBER as reason for more government regulation of guns?
How difficult is it to get a handgun in DC? Very, very difficult.