With the debate heating up in New Mexico over Michael Bloomberg's push for Universal Background checks, Dr. John Lott has an op-ed in the newspaper for the state's capitol. Let’s say a stalker threatens a female friend of yours. She asks you if she can borrow your...
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Michael Bloomberg wasted $20 million on Nevada’s Background Checks on Private Transfers
This year, Bloomberg got a background check initiative onto the ballots of Maine and Nevada. Given the supposed 90% support that the media tells us that there is for these polls and the massive financial support provided by Bloomberg, one would think that these...
Remember those claims that 80 to 90% of Americans wanted expanded background checks?: Well, no so much support for specific bills
UPDATE January 27, 2014: In a new national ad, former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords again implies that since 90% of Americans support background checks that means that they will support the legislation that she is pushing. "What is Congress afraid of? Nine out of 10...
CPRC at Fox News: “Guns, the Second Amendment and what you should hear from Clinton and Trump”
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Fox News At this Sunday’s town-hall style presidential debate the public is able to vote for their favorite questions. The ABC News and CNN moderators plan on using the 30 questions that receive the most votes. Largely because of...
CPRC at Fox News on new California Initiative to require background checks on ammunition purchases
Fox News has a news story on a new initiative being offered by California’s Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. The initiative has includes proposals either not approved by the the Democrat controlled legislature because they were viewed as unworkable or vetoed by the governor. ....
CPRC at Fox News: “You know the case for background checks is weak if . . .”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News is on the extremely low quality of research by public health researchers starts this way: Academic advocates of gun control apparently need to manipulate the data in order to argue for background checks on private gun transfers. ...
CPRC on The Laura Ingraham Show: Discussion about President Obama’s inaccurate statements during CNN Townhall on Guns
Dr. Lott talks with Laura Ingraham about the many distortions and false statements by President Obama during CNN Townhall on Guns. The radio interview can be listened to here Audience size 2+ million people.
CPRC on The Daily Ledger: Dr. John Lott discusses Obama’s Executive Actions on Guns and how it will have a negative impact on law-abiding citizens
The Daily Ledger: President of Crime Prevention Research Center, Dr. John R. Lott Jr., discusses President Obama's Executive Actions on Gun Control and how it will have a negative impact on law-abiding citizens. The full video can be viewed here.
CPRC in the National Review: Obama’s Gun-Control Order is Dictatorial, and it Won’t Work
President of Crime Prevention Research Center, Dr. John R. Lott Jr., has an op-ed piece out discussing Obama's Gun-Control orders and why they simply will not work. The op-ed starts like this Today, upset that Congress has refused, in his words, to do...
New CPRC Research: “Do Background Checks on Private Gun Transfers help Stop Mass Public Shootings?”
Today President Obama addressed the issue of mass public shootings and background checks. From the Fox News article today discussing our new study: The report, published by the Crime Prevention Research Center on Jan. 2, argues that not only are background checks...
Why the so-called Charleston gun purchase Loophole wasn’t a loophole (Hillary Clinton’s misstatements about Charleston and Virginia Tech)
On December 29th, Hillary Clinton pushed again for closing the so-called "Charleston loophole" (see Hillary Clinton at 24:45 into the video). Very often we don't have real time information. Because we also have to close what is called the Charleston loophole, where...
CPRC’s work on expanded background checks discussed in the Sunday Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Colin McNickle has this piece in the Sunday Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: In its latest installment in a crusade to rid America of firearms, The New York Times “reports” on a “study” that purports to show how, in the first six years after Missouri “repealed the...