by David Yamane | Nov 1, 2022 | Books, Gun Culture, National Rifle Association, Noah Schwartz
As my agent continues to try to find a publisher for my book on American gun culture, I feel bombarded by other people’s books on the topic. Actually, most books published on guns in America today do not compete with mine because they approach guns from the...
by David Yamane | Aug 10, 2022 | Books, Gun Culture, Light Over Heat, National Rifle Association
In this week’s Light Over Heat video, I discuss four books on the National Rifle Association (NRA) in light of two persistent myths. First, that the NRA was a benign, apolitical sportsmans organization prior to the Revolt at Cincinnati in 1977. Second, that the NRA is...
by David Yamane | Jul 3, 2022 | gender, Gun Culture, National Rifle Association, The ANNALS, The Seventies, The Well Armed Woman, women
TL:DR Because I had then lost this document, and so I do not lose it again, I am posting a PDF of The Woman’s Gun Pamphlet: A Primer on Handguns. The pamphlet is notable for being published in 1975 by an anonymous “group of women who have spent our lives...
by David Yamane | Jun 22, 2022 | Ackerman-McQueen, Defensive Gun Use, Gun Culture, Light Over Heat, National Rifle Association, Texas
NOTE: An earlier, abbreviated version of this text appeared as an opinion essay in the Charlotte Observer/Raleigh News & Observer on June 16, 2022. I am a defensive gun owner and a sociologist who has been studying American gun culture for a decade now. One of the...
by David Yamane | Dec 5, 2021 | Books, National Rifle Association, Tim Mak
Before I had a chance to read it myself, I had been hearing good things from reform minded NRA members about Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA by NPR investigative reporter Tim Mak. I’ve now had a chance to read the book in full. Despite some small...
by David Yamane | May 15, 2020 | Gun Culture, National Rifle Association, NRATV, scholarship, women
Although I was not a fan of NRATV generally, there were some programs I thought did a good job of trying to “build bridges, not walls.” Among these were shows aimed at incorporating more women in gun culture. So I was excited when I came across an academic article —...
