by David Yamane | Apr 20, 2020 | coronavirus, Data, gun sales, Guns, National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), sociology, Trent Steidley
In his third and final guest post in this series (see his first and second), Trent Steidley takes up the claim that the COVID-19 gun purchasing spree of March 2020 was driven by handgun purchases (a claim I made myself, which helped begin this dialogue). Was March...
by David Yamane | Apr 19, 2020 | coronavirus, Data, gun sales, Guns, National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), sociology, Trent Steidley
In his guest post yesterday, Trent Steidley challenged the simplistic use of data from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) as a measure of “gun sales.” Today he critically engages the second of three common narratives emerging from...
by David Yamane | Apr 18, 2020 | coronavirus, Data, gun sales, Guns, sociology, Trent Steidley
My recent posts about the great COVID19 gun buying spree of March 2020 (especially handguns) elicited some helpful clarifying and corrective tweets from my colleague Trent Steidley (bio below). I don’t know any sociologist as familiar or adept with National Instant...
