by David Yamane | Oct 7, 2021 | COVID19, diversity, Gun Culture, gun sales, new gun owners, Outdoor Writers Association of America, Personal Protection
I was fortunate to be asked to present on “Guns in America” at the annual conference of the Outdoor Writers Association of America yesterday (6 October 2021). I discussed “Gun Culture 2.0 and the Changing Face of Gun Owners in America.” I was fairly certain that the...
by David Yamane | Feb 5, 2021 | COVID19, diversity, Gun Culture, gun ownership, Guns, My Experience, new gun owners
Late in 2020 an editor from the online magazine Discourse contacted me to see if I wanted to write anything about my work on American gun culture for them. The invitation provided an excellent opportunity for me to formalize some of my scattered thoughts on the Great...
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 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...
by David Yamane | Nov 11, 2020 | COVID19, Data, diversity, gun ownership, Guns, MTurk, new gun owners, Prepping
On top of the paper I wrote about last week, I have found a second scholarly publication on firearm purchasing during the COVID-19 pandemic. This one is by a group of public health scholars associated with the Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program at the...
by David Yamane | Sep 15, 2020 | American Journal of Public Health, Data, Gun Culture 2.0, gun ownership, new gun owners, Sociology of Guns Seminar
The great gun buying spree(s) of 2020 have raised the issue of NEW GUN OWNERS. We have no reliable data on how many of those millions of NICS checks being run this year are for people who are buying a gun for the first time. Anecdotal evidence suggests a short answer...
