Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: How Military Guns Make the Civilian Market [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)Kind of like Lott on the other side. Most of the other people are pretty obscure other than Phil Cook.
Hemenway and Lott have an ideological dog in the fight.
Kleck never did, but now he is the best known. Probably the most respected in academe out of the gun researchers. He simply found an area where little work has been done when he started in the 1970s. He gets awards from his professional society and is one of the top 25 criminal justice professors in the US.
Lott goes to NRA conventions and Hemenway gets a free dinner and a plaque from the Brady campaign. That doesn't mean everything Lott and Hemenway does is bullshit, but they are open about their bias.
Recurring criticism? Other than being kind of outdated? I have read that he is an NRA shill, which I know he isn't, since he supports gun control measures the NRA doesn't (UBC similar to Colorado's). The NRA didn't fund any of his research. You tell me.