Apple is reportedly talking to Google about integrating its Artificial Intelligence program, Gemini, into iPhones. In another report from the Media Research Center, Google has biased news searches that “interfered” with 41 elections over the last 16 years, and the...
CPRC puts in Amicus brief in 9th Circuit case Banning Concealed Carry in Most of California
The Crime Prevention Research Association joined with the Peace Officers Research Association of California, the California State Sheriffs’ Association, and the California Association of Highway Patrolmen in an Amicus brief on California's new law designating almost...
Did Tennessee’s 2016 Law that Allowed People to Store Guns in Vehicles Increase the Number of Stolen Guns?
Here is the claim from News Channel 5 in Nashville. . . . it was dubbed the "guns in trunks" bill. That law specified that the firearm needed to be "kept from ordinary observation and locked within the trunk, glove box, or interior of the person's motor vehicle or a...
UPDATE: With all the concern about assault weapons, how has the share of murders with rifles changed over time?
August 12, 2023 With all the concern about assault weapons since the federal ban sunset in 2004, it is interesting to see what a small share of murders are committed with any type of rifle and how even that share has fallen over time. The percentage of firearm murders...
Updated information on Mass Public Shootings from 1998 through October 2023
When another shooting happens at a place such as a school or a mall, politicians and the media are apt to claim that many hundreds of mass shootings occur each year. “Over the last year since Uvalde, our country has experienced a staggering 650 mass shootings,”...
Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States: 2023
A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2022 are available here. Abstract Despite the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen affirming a...
Testimony before the US Commission on Civil Rights on Racial Disparities in Violent Crime Victimization in the United States. A lively discussion ensued as Lott was the only witness attacked by the Commissioners and other witnesses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W8CFYKkPEU Dr. John Lott testified before the US Civil Rights Commission on federal efforts to gather data on racial and ethnic disparities. He was on Panel 4: Researcher & Policy Experts. Dr. Lott was the only person on...
Vice President Kamala Harris falsely claims: “Muslims in America and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate fueled attacks.”
In setting up “the first ever US National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia,” the Biden administration has again focused on hate crimes against Muslims despite the rise this year in hate crimes against Jews. How accurate is Vice President Kamala Harris’ claim: “Muslims...
BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE by the CRIME PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTER in United States v. ZACKEY RAHIMI
Here is a copy of the Amicus brief that the Crime Prevention Research Center has submitted in the case of United States v. Rahimi is available here. Abstract If people who are subject to a civil restraining order are dangerous, prohibiting them from possessing...
Pre-CPRC research
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.