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 | 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...
