by David Yamane | Jan 15, 2021 | Data, gun sales, Guns, National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), Trent Steidley
2020 has passed, and with that we can finally start saying how the whole year stacked up compared to previous years in terms of gun sales (or more appropriately “sales” since its pretty much proxies all the way down when it comes to measuring gun sales). Here I am...
by David Yamane | Dec 31, 2020 | Data, Gun Culture, gun ownership, liberals, Sociological Inquiry, sociology
Early in 2020 I wrote an entry on this blog asking “Who are the liberal gun owners?” I was responding to media interest in liberals who own guns in an election year. In response to an inquiry from the Associated Press, I did some quick and dirty analyses...
by David Yamane | Dec 14, 2020 | Books, Data, Sullivan Law
Coroner’s Clerk Lebrun, who played a major role in the drafting of the Sullivan Law, pointed out that the number of suicides by firearms had dropped 40% over the previous year. He credited the new law with this decline. Lebrun did not comment on the number of...
by David Yamane | Nov 14, 2020 | COVID19, Data, gun ownership, Guns, new gun owners
I was excited, initially, when I found yet another recently published scholarly article on the COVID-19 pandemic gun buying spree of 2020. I have already noted an interesting study that uses NICS data to highlight how the COVID spree differs from other spikes in gun...
by David Yamane | Nov 13, 2020 | COVID19, Data, George Floyd, gun ownership, Guns
The COVID-19 pandemic compounded by the George Floyd protests and riots mixed with the boogaloo/CW2/Great Awakening V leading up to a hotly contested presidential election created a literally unprecedented gun buying spree in 2020. This post collects various blog...
by David Yamane | Nov 12, 2020 | COVID19, Data, George Floyd, Guns, new gun owners, new shooters
Although there are and have always been new guns owners every year, the Great Gun Buying Spree of 2020 may entail more new gun owners than normal. It has certain generated more interest in new gun owners than normal. The COVID-19 pandemic compounded by the George...
