by David Yamane | May 24, 2019 | Gun Culture, My Experience, National Firearms Law Seminar
In April, I gave the lunchtime talk at the National Firearms Law Seminar in Indianapolis. More than anything I’ve written or said, “Gun Culture 2.0, or How a Liberal Professor Became an Armed American” offered a very personal perspective on how I got...
by David Yamane | May 14, 2019 | Beretta, My Experience
In a lunchtime talk at the National Firearms Law Seminar recently, I recounted three of my main observations about guns and gun culture in America. The second of these observations is: “Shooting is fun, and challenging.” It is fun, in part, because it is...
by David Yamane | Apr 8, 2019 | My Experience, North Carolina
I lived the first four decades of my life completely outside of gun culture, so I remember well when I started to realize after I moved to North Carolina how common and normal guns are to so many people. Once I was attuned to the reality of guns outside of their...