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 | Nov 9, 2020 | gun ownership, Guns, Lara Smith, Liberal Gun Club, Sociology of Guns Seminar
With thanks to Rocket Armory for the slogan and visual, liberals own guns, too. This is a point I have made before. Approximately 20% of all gun owners in the United States — at least 12 million American adults — self-identify as liberal (compared to 36%...
by David Yamane | Oct 30, 2020 | COVID19, Data, George Floyd, gun ownership, gun sales, Guns
There has been a good deal of speculation and anec-data shared about the great gun buying spree of 2020. It is impossible to deny that something significant happened, but the extent and nature of what happened remains to be understood. Although it does not tell us...
by David Yamane | Sep 24, 2020 | gun ownership, Guns, Sociology of Guns Seminar
I have written previously about how survey research underestimates the rate of gun ownership in the United States. The main sources of “false negatives” (people who own guns but tell survey researchers they do not) are (1) people who don’t want...
by James Downey | Aug 24, 2020 | .44, .44 Magnum, .458 Win Mag, .50 Alaskan, .50 BMG, .500 Jeffery, .500 Nitro Express, .500 S&W Magnum, .600 Nitro Express, .700 Nitro Express, .950 JDJ, 11 x 59mm R Gras, 12.7 x 108mm, 14.5 JDJ, 50-110 WCF, cartridges, Cartridges of the World, Enlightened Art, Firearms, Glowforge, Guns, lasers, Links, Wikipedia
Remember the post about the various large cartridges? Well, I made a display box. Actually, I made three — one for each of the BBTI team members. And now that I’ve given the other two guys theirs, I can share pics: That’s all three boxes....
by David Yamane | Aug 4, 2020 | COVID19, Data, gun sales, Guns, The Trace
The fact that gun sales have been off the charts in 2020 is not news, but some were still surprised at the July sales numbers. The newsadvocacy organization The Trace has created an interesting data visualization drawing on NICS data as a proxy for gun sales. I...
