Mentioning our work on NewsMax on July 29, 2025 Victor Davis Hanson: “as a lot of people pointed out, John Lott and others, there is a correlation between deporting hundreds of thousands of criminals and a drop in crime, and that has financial benefits for the...
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Greg Gutfeld on Fox News Explaining How Gun Control Laws Ensure that Only Criminals will be Armed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xw6RhliBtE In discussing the mass public shooting in New York City on July 28th, Greg Gutfeld on Fox News’ The Five made points very similar to ones that we have long made and we discussed these points with Greg before the show. Our...
Outnumbered’s Lisa Boothe References Our Research in Discussing the Active Shooting Attack in New York City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thHVUHFzCg4 Lisa Boothe on Fox News' Outnumbered discusses John Lott's work on active shootings (July 29, 2025). Lott's point was: The New York City murderer who killed four people broke numerous gun control laws—he openly carried a...
Washington Gun Law: How Gun Free Zones Actually Cost Lives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVM2k7NT2D0 Here is a slightly older video on the same topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjHtjtHDZ7o Updated data on this topic is available here and here. We would argue that it isn't just that criminals ignore these gun free zone...
Washington Gun Law: The Truth About America’s Gun Violence Issue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4wz_DfaITs It is greatly appreciated that Washington Gun Law did this deep dive into data that we put out. We only recently became aware of this video, and it has been out for a while. There are a couple of little mistakes in the...
Argentina’s La Voz Covers Talk to Police in Córdoba
Dr. John Lott gave a talk to police at the provincial police headquarters in the Argentinian Province of Córdoba. A copy of Lott's Power point without the video is available here. The video is available here. Argentina-Talk-2025-Police-Without-VideoDownload Weapons....
Washington Gun Law: The Truth About “Assault Weapons” and Mass Shootings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZMHnU8UcHw Again, we appreciate Washington Gun Law covering our data on this. We have updated the data discussed in this post. Washington Gun Law President, William Kirk, discusses some raw data released by the Crime Prevention...
CPRC in the News: New York Sun (2), National Police Association, American Free Press, Ammoland (2), and much more
. . . Firearms researcher John Lott reminds us, too, that rifles, per se, like the AR-15, are involved in only a fraction of these incidents. His analysis of such shooting incidents taking place between 1998 and 2024 finds that in only 17.3 percent of them did the...
CPRC in the News: Instapundit (2), Independent Sentinel (2), America’s 1st Freedom, Ammoland, The Lars Larson Show, and more
Stephen Green, "CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: They’ve Learned Nothing: Dems Still Pushing the Same Failed, Unpopular Gun Control That Got Them Where They Are Today," Instapundit.com, May 22, 2025. This next piece reposts a link to our recent op-ed at Real Clear Politics....
Texas Legislative Debate to Ban Local Governments from Gun “Buybacks” Frequently mentions Our Research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCOjqSzn4y4 Texas House Bill 3053, introduced in the 2025-2026 legislative session, prohibits municipalities and counties running firearm "buyback" programs. The bill aims to prevent these programs from removing firearms...
CPRC in the News: Law Enforcement Today, Just the News, The Blaze, HuffPost, LifeZette, and More
. . . Dr. John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and a former Justice Department official, told the John Solomon Reports podcast that looking at “non-criminal behavior” by federal law enforcement was concerning. “Well, back in June 2021,...
Greg Gutfeld on Fox’s The Five Using the Data on Crime by Illegals the Crime Prevention Research Center Put Together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG-WYRAwrMo There are a number of pieces of information on this issue that we provided Greg Gutfeld. 1) Last year, the Biden administration admitted that 9% of the so-called "non-detained" illegals who were released into the US had...










