by David Yamane | Mar 24, 2020 | coronavirus, COVID19, Data, gun sales, guns, Personal Protection, Wall Street Journal
Barack Obama has apparently met his match as the “greatest gun salesman in American history.” On Sunday, an acquaintance from my years wandering around American gun culture messaged me to say that he had not seen a gun buying response like this one in some...
by David Yamane | Mar 17, 2020 | Data, Gun Ownership, guns
When I launched this blog in February 2019, I noted that no one had (yet) systematically studied people who are gun curious. The Pew Research Center’s 2017 report, “America’s Complex Relationship With Guns,” offers some important leads, though. Instead of simply...
by David Yamane | Feb 28, 2020 | Advertising, Colt's, Data, FNH, Gun Culture, guns, militarization, Violence Policy Center
Criticisms of the “militarization” of American gun culture are commonplace. No group has done more to attack this phenomenon than the Violence Policy Center (VPC) and their 2011 report on “The Militarization of the U.S. Civilian Firearms...
by James Downey | Feb 26, 2020 | .44, .44 Magnum, .44 Special, ammo, ammunition, Anecdotes, ballistics, BBTI, cartridges, Colt, Colt Anaconda, Cor-Bon, Corbon, Data, Discussion., Firearms, Hornady, jim downey, reviews, Revolver, Taurus, Winchester
Recently I came across on a surprisingly good deal on a Taurus Tracker .44mag snubnose. This one: Taurus isn’t my first choice of firearm brands, but I’ve owned them and generally liked them, and the price on this one was a little too good to pass up. So I...
by David Yamane | Feb 7, 2020 | Data, Gun Culture, National Rifle Association, religion, The American Rifleman
In a recent appearance on Ballistic Radio with John Johnston, I spoke some about ways in which gun culture can be like a religion. Although I ultimately concluded that there are important differences between the two, I have noted the confluence of guns and religion...
by David Yamane | Dec 9, 2019 | Data
From Hannah Fry’s essay in The New Yorker: on “What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves: “As the mathematician Ian Stewart points out in ‘Do Dice Play God?’ (Basic), the average person has one breast and one...
