John Lott was quoted extensively in a Fox News article about Maryland's decision to scrap its ballistic fingerprinting system. Ballistic fingerprinting was just another way of trying to register guns. State authorities have conceded that the bullet ID program,...
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Bloomberg’s School of Public Health Cherry Picked Claim that firearm homicides in Connecticut fell 40% because of a gun licensing law
The Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University put out this press release on a paper by Rudolph, Stuart, Vernick, and Webster: A 1995 Connecticut law requiring a permit or license - contingent on passing a background check - in order to purchase a...
Evaluating Mother Jones’ “10 Pro-Gun Myths, Shot Down”
The fact that federal court judges are citing Mother Jones' claims about guns as evidence, particularly for what is cited, is pretty disappointing. We were recently asked to evaluate Mother Jones'"10 Pro-Gun Myths, Shot Down." Virtually all these responses were widely...
CPRC in the Philadelphia Inquirer: On why gun control is becoming even more impossible to impose
The op-ed piece in the Inquirer starts this way: The new year has brought yet more gun-control regulations. President Obama announced new executive orders on background checks. Connecticut citizens stood in long lines to register their guns, and, next door in New York...
Piece on Canada’s National Gun Registry: Canada sank $2.7 billion into a pointless project
John Lott and Gary Mauser have a piece in the National Review on the end of Canada's long gun registry. Despite spending a whopping $2.7 billion on creating and running a long-gun registry, Canadians never reaped any benefits from the project. The legislation to end...