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This is an interesting development:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/24/controversial-gun-advocate-justice-department-440251

 

Controversial gun advocate hired by Justice Department last month

Lott, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles, is best known for his 1998 book, “More Guns, Less Crime.”

By JOSH GERSTEIN
11/24/2020 06:01 AM EST

The Justice Department has hired an economist known for provocative research claiming that communities can reduce crime by allowing widespread gun ownership and implementing policies making it easier to carry a gun in public.

Last month, John Lott, 62, left a nonprofit group he founded seven years ago to take a job as a senior adviser for research and statistics at the Office of Justice Programs—a DOJ division that doles out $5 billion in grants each year.

Lott, who holds a doctorate from the University of California at Los Angeles, is best known for his 1998 book, “More Guns, Less Crime,” and for a slew of reports, articles and op-eds advocating for lifting gun control laws.

Lott confirmed his move to DOJ but declined to comment further. “I took a job at the Department of Justice. I’m really not supposed to say more than that,” he said when reached by phone last week.

A Justice Department spokesperson confirmed Lott’s title Monday, but declined to answer further questions about his hiring. The spokesperson would not say whether Lott is serving as a political appointee or a career civil service position.
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Full article at link...Everytown is quite unhappy as well

 

http://www.mom-at-arms.com/post/everytown-is-furious-about-john-lott-working-with-the-doj

 

..."NEW YORK — Everytown for Gun Safety and its grassroots networks, Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, released the following statements in response to published reports that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has hired widely-discredited researcher John Lott as a senior advisor at the Office of Justice Programs, which gives out $5 billion a year in grants.

“Putting John Lott in a position of power at DOJ to protect public safety is like putting an arsonist in charge of the fire department,” said Nick Suplina, managing director for law and policy at Everytown for Gun Safety. “It would be laughable if it wasn’t such a dangerous move that could have serious consequences for gun safety. This is one more mess the highly competent Biden team will have to clean up – hopefully before Lott can do irreversible damage.”

“John Lott should be booted from the federal government and every policy or decision he’s touched while on government property should be thrown out,” said Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action. “This is one of the worst hires the Trump administration could have made – and that’s truly saying something.” "...

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It would be really nice if the Trump Administration was going to use his advice on passing some EOs before he leaves. Hopefully SCOTUS won't let Biden reverse the EO cause they sure didn't let Pres Trump do it.
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Why These Senators Want John Lott Fired, Now

 

https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2020/12/9/why-these-senators-want-john-lott-fired-now

 

..."Now nine U.S. Senators—including Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)—have sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr demanding information on Lott’s hiring. The letter calls Lott “a pro-gun advocate who claims that widespread gun ownership can reduce crime.” This is nothing more than an ideologically motivated slur. Lott is a researcher and an academic who has taught at many universities. His peer-reviewed research has clearly shown that gun ownership tends to reduce crime.

 

These senators want to know if Lott is a political appointee or if he is serving in a “career civil service position.” The intent of this is clear: They want to know how easy it will be to fire him, so they can thereby protect money going to anti-Second Amendment research, if Joe Biden is sworn in as president on January 20.

 

They also want Barr to give them a list of “all individuals who held positions as political appointees since January 20, 2017, and are now employed in permanent competitive positions, non-political excepted service positions, or career Senior Executive Service (SES) positions at the Department and its components.”..

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It's a witch hunt for anyone even remotely sympathetic to Trump put in during the time of Trump. It must be burned out with fire.....

 

 

Oh, and it is revealed that Senator Fienstien is more severely senile than Joe Biden, and is becoming an embarrassment.

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  • 2 months later...

So Lott is now gone as of end of Jan.

 

https://www.thetrace.org/2021/01/john-lott-trump-appointee-leave-justice-department-gun-data/

 

 

From the link Molly posted earlier about TV shows

 

..."Lott is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and the author most recently of Gun Control Myths. Until last month, Lott was the senior adviser for research and statistics at the U.S. Department of Justices Office of Legal Policy."...

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