With Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the rest of Eastern Europe is rethinking its views on private gun ownership. Here is one example from Lithuania. Euro News, March 7, 2022 https://rumble.com/embed/vu2sta/?pub=vzmga
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On Chicago’s WIND-AM: Analyzing guns sales and crime rates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiLu9MacxAc Dr. John Lott talked with Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson on Chicago's top morning radio talk show on WIND-AM. They discussed the claim that increased gun sales were responsible for the rise in violent crime over the last two...
At Townhall: As Gun Sales Soared, the Number of Violent Crimes Committed with Guns Plummeted
Rachel Morgan and Alexandra Thompson, "Criminal Victimization, 2020," Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, October 2021. Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall on the claims about increased gun sales causing an increase in violent crime. With...
And people wonder why gun sales are skyrocketing: Over 60 Portland 911 calls go unheeded overnight as police respond to riot
Among the calls that police didn't respond to included: "Call types ranged from theft, vandalism, suspicious activity, hazards, hit and run, burglary, violation of restraining order, alarms, stolen cars, harassment and many others.” From Fox News: More than 60...
Record NICS background checks in March
March 2018 was the busiest March on record for NICS firearm background checks, and the third highest monthly total ever. Only the monthly totals for December 2015 and 2016 were higher, though December checks are usually the highest. Note that NICS checks include not...
Gun sales down from record 2016 levels, but still higher than previous years.
Gun control advocates live in a media bubble. After Lois Becket wrote a story in the Guardian that focuses on how gun sales for one company have fallen, the Washington Post's Christopher Ingraham followed up, thinking that anything showing that gun sales are down as...
NEW CPRC Report: Much less than 0.039% of guns sold by Federally Licensed Dealers stolen last year — a rate less than 1/30th the rate of theft for retail industry
A new report from the BATF points out that Federally Licensed Gun Dealers had 6,163 firearms stolen from them in 2015. With the Obama administration finalizing a new rule to enhance dealer reporting of stolen or lost firearms, this BATF report allows us to...
Record Gun Sales in 2015, over 2 million more background checks than previous highest year
Click on table to enlarge picture. Original source available here. That is about a 10 percent increase over the previous highest year, 2013.
Gun Background Checks Continue at Record Pace, Black Friday’s Gun Sales Set Record
Click on figure to enlarge For the last six months, NICS background checks have been setting a records. On Black Friday, there were 185,345 NICS checks, over 8,000 more than the previous record of 177,170 set on December 21, 2012. The previous Black Friday record...
CPRC in USA Today: Renewed calls for gun control laws did not explain August’s record high background checks
John Lott's letter to the editor at USA Today can be found here. Original Post: USA Today repeats what is a popular claim, that gun sales are driven by pushes for gun control. Even when a spike in sales occurs after a shooting, there are two possibilities: 1) that...
CPRC in the Washington Times on the big surge in gun production since 1999
A news article in the Washington Times: . . . The biggest change in production has come under President Obama. From 2001 to 2007, gun production held steady at between 3 million and 4 million units a year. It topped 4 million in 2008 but shot to 5.6 million in 2009,...
Adjusting NICS checks for background checks for Concealed Handgun Permits
You can compare these adjusted numbers to the official NICS numbers. This adjustment is significant -- the NICS numbers are 42.6% higher in 2013 than these adjusted numbers. But the numbers show similar changes in gun ownership over time. The adjusted numbers...