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 | Jan 28, 2021 | crime, Donald Trump, insurrection, Law
In early January 2021, my work was disrupted by a text message from a friend: “They are storming the capitol.” It took me a moment to figure out who “they” were, but I soon made the connection. They were people gathered for the March for Trump rally in Washington, DC....
by David Yamane | Jan 25, 2021 | Advertising, Data, gender, Gun Culture, The American Rifleman, women
TLDR: I just posted a publicly-accessible pre-print of a book chapter, “A Woman’s Place in Gun Advertisements: The American Rifleman, 1920-2019,” co-authored with recent Wake Forest University graduate (and current George Washington University Law...
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 | Jan 14, 2021 | Books, Buy Me A Coffee, Concealed Carry Revolution, Gun Culture, My Experience, Teespring
I am trying to break the grip the current moment has on my attention, and thought a good way to do that would be to have a brief look at my year ahead. For the spring semester, I am on a research leave, meaning I am excused from my normal teaching and service...
