John Lott and Colorado state Representative Ryan Armagost have a piece in Colorado's second largest newspaper the Colorado Springs Gazette. . Credit card companies soon might be tracking purchases of firearms and ammunition in Colorado. A bill that would flag...
The Illinois State Police won’t pursue charges against Illinois residents who didn’t register their weapons that fall under the new law by the January 1st deadline. The ISP says the FOID Portal will remain open and people can submit endorsement affidavits at any time....
Illinois has its new registration rules for grandfathered “assault weapons” (e.g., semi-automatic rifles) and large capacity magazines. Not everyone who has a FOID card may own a gun, though a large majority of those owning guns likely own standard magazines, which...
Illinois has its new registration rules for grandfathered "assault weapons" (e.g., semi-automatic rifles) and large capacity magazines. Not everyone who has a FOID card may own a gun, though a large majority of those owning guns likely own standard magazines, which...
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed with two Nevada state Senators, Ira Hansen (Reno and six of the state’s rural counties) and Jeff Stone (Las Vegas), on a bill dealing with “ghost guns,” AB354. The Las Vegas Review-Journal is the largest newspaper in Nevada. . The...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics and the Epoch Times. Federal law explicitly prohibits the creation of a federal firearm registry, but the Biden administration is making one anyway. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has...
In total, ATF manages 920,664,765 OBR (Out of Business Records) as of November 2021. This includes digital and an estimated number of hard copy records that are awaiting image conversion. It is currentlyestimated that 865,787,086 of those records are in digitalized...
In Episode 12 of Season 4, Natalie (Torrey DeVitto) asks Will (Nick Gehlfuss) to move back in with her. But she has a condition: he must get rid of his gun. His handgun has been a major, long-standing problem between them, and this time Will finally relents. But he...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Democrats push for more gun control in Pennsylvania. It gives you an idea what they would do if Democrats took control of the Pennsylvania state legislature. Pennsylvania Democrats want to register your...
Hawaii is moving towards putting its list of registered gun owners in the FBI database. Obviously, the state can only enter this data into the FBI database with the approval of the FBI and the US Department of Justice, both under the control of the Obama...
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...
John Lott's op-ed at the Washington Post starts this way: Ballistic fingerprinting was all the rage 15 years ago. Maryland led the way, setting up a computer database on new guns and the markings they made on bullets. New York soon followed. The days of criminal gun...