For months John Lott had tried getting a response from the Department of Justice and the authors of a FBI report on "active shooters" regarding errors that the CPRC had found. Lott then published our research in the March 2015 issue of the Academy of Criminal Justice...
Media Discussion on CPRC
Al Jazeera using CPRC data to point out Heather MacDonald’s false claim about increasing murder rates in 2015
Al Jazeera using Crime Prevention Research Center's work to point out Heather MacDonald’s false claim about increasing murder rates during the beginning of 2015 (June 3, 2015)
Greg Gutfeld & Eric Boiling Use CPRC Research to Discuss the “Media’s uninformed backlash against Vince Vaughn”
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Here is also a transcript of Gutfeld's remarks. One will note that Greg Gutfeld's points parallel the evidence that we had put together on Vince Vaughn's comments. John Lott also has a new op-ed at Fox News on the Vince...
CPRC at Fox News: “Designer of 3-D-printed gun challenges feds to Constitutional duel”
John Lott was interviewed by Fox News about the Obama administration's latest attempts to ban computer files that allow 3D printers to print guns. This isn't just plastic printers. The metal 3D printers can produce a gun that is identical in many ways to a gun that...
News coverage on Bloomberg’s research director’s refusal to debate with John Lott
John Lott's and Everytown's research director separate presentations on C-SPAN on Saturday highlighted Bloomberg's groups continued unwillingness to debate. There have been about a dozen instances over the last seven or eight years where producers will call John Lott...
CPRC in Politifact on which states have the most concealed handgun permits
From Politifact Florida: We interviewed John R. Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center which compiles data on gun permits in states. Lott, an academic and Fox News columnist, published the book More Guns, Less Crime through the University of Chicago...
CPRC at Fox News on the impact of police seizing people’s guns and not returning them
Malia Zimmerman's piece contained this discussion: . . . . These tactics are a way for police departments or the government to make it more costly to own guns, said John Lott, an economist, leading expert on guns, and author at the Crime Prevention Research Center....
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,...
CPRC Survey of economists gets front page mention in the Washington Times
The Washington Times covered our survey of economists that was conducted by Professor Gary Mauser. Stephen Dinan's article that compared our survey to one done at the same time by David Hemenway: . . . Take Mr. Mauser’s question about self-defense and crimes: While...
CPRC at Fox News: “Media misfire? Columbia J-school, Bloomberg unite to teach gun coverage”
Perry Chiaramonte's news article has this discussion of the CPRC and our survey that Gary Mauser oversaw of economists and their views on gun control: Critics who think the media has an anti-firearm agenda won't like the lineup behind a high-powered, upcoming seminar...
Fox News stories on our research about the FBI fudging mass shooting statistics is at the very top of the website and is the most viewed story
The Fox News story is available here. If you are interested in reading our original report that will be published this week in the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Today, please download it here. Right now the coverage of our report is at the very top of the Fox...
CPRC in the Idaho Statesman: Discussing the increase in concealed handgun permits and what it means
From an article by Bill Dentzer in the Idaho Statesman: . . . The move toward "shall-issue" accelerated in the mid-1980s. Florida became a shall-issue state in 1987, and now has 1.3 million concealed carry permit holders - roughly 10 percent of the national number,...