Michael Maltz has sent me some comments on the severe problems data Lott used for his "More Guns, Less Crime" thesis. Note that this is a different set of problems to the coding errors that Lott has been dodging recently.
Also of interest is Lott's response to the severe problems---he ignored them and accused Maltz of fraud.
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