CPRC's John Lott has another piece at Fox News that starts this way: Let’s say a stalker is threatening a female friend of yours. She asks you if she can borrow your handgun. She is trained and has no criminal record. Should you loan her your gun? If you live in...
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CPRC on the Lars Larson Radio Show: “Is the attack in Canada proof that restrictive gun laws don’t work?”
John Lott joined Lars Larson's national radio show to discuss the attack on the Canadian Parliament building (October 23, 2014 from 6:37 to 6:45 PM EDT available here).
CPRC on the Jim Bohannon Show to discuss the Supreme Court decision over “straw purchasers”
On Monday, the Supreme Court released its decision in the case of Abramski v. United States. The case involved a police officer, Bruce Abramski, who bought a gun, a Glock 19 handgun, for his uncle. The officer, who is a federally licensed dealer and could get a...
CPRC on the Dennis Miller Show: Discussing Background Checks and Bloomberg Funded Research
The audio of John Lott's interview with Dennis Miller is available here (March 10, 2014, 12:35 to 1 PM). Dennis Miller's kind endorsement of the CPRC at the end of the interview: We are talking to John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, and if...
CPRC on Coast-to-Coast AM to discuss Obama’s Expanded Background Checks
The audio of John Lott's interview on Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory is available here. Lott was in the news segment for 3 minutes to discuss the Obama administration implementing his executive orders on background checks.
CPRC at Investor’s Business Daily on the 20th Anniversary of the Brady Law: “Brady Law Has Done Little To Keep Guns Out Of Criminals’ Hands”
The Brady Law stops law-abiding Americans, not criminals, from getting guns. John Lott's piece at Investor's Business Daily starts this way: Last Friday marked the 20th anniversary of the so-called Brady Law, a federal gun control in honor of James Brady, Ronald...
Obama’s impact on US gun sales, a warning about using NICS checks to measure gun sales
Gun sales have exploded under the Obama administration even while crime rates have fallen. Jason Riley has recently made that point in the Wall Street Journal. NICS checks for guns are a rather imperfect measure of gun sales. People can buy multiple guns with one...
CPRC on KMOX to discuss new studies funded by Bloomberg on school shootings and Missouri
John Lott appeared on the Mark Reardon Show on KMOX to discuss new research funded by Michael Bloomberg on schooling shootings and Missouri ending its universal background check rules for handguns. The audio of the interview is available here (KMOX, Thursday, February...
What does Missouri show about the benefits from universal background checks?: Nothing really. Notes on the forthcoming Journal of Urban Health study by the Bloomberg School of Public Health
There has been some attention given yesterday and today about a study coming out from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University: Repeal of Missouri's background check law associated with increase in state's murders Missouri's 2007 repeal of its...
Fewer than 1 percent of state prison inmates obtained their guns at the time of offense from gun shows, costs of regulations exceed benefits
What is interesting is the remarkable consistency of the rate that criminals obtained their guns from gun shows (a copy of the earlier report is available here). One problem with using these surveys is that people think that if one were to actually stop all criminals...
CPRC on Washington DC’s big WMAL to discuss recent gun control issues
John Lott was Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor's guest on Friday morning to discuss a range of gun control issues from background checks to the large push by Michael Bloomberg, liberal foundations, and the federal government to fund research that will support their gun...
CPRC on Chicago’s WIND AM talking to Big John Howell and Amy Jacobson
The discussion focused on everything from Illinois' new concealed carry law to background checks (audio of the 12 minute interview is available here)