by David Yamane | Jul 26, 2023 | Ashley Hlebinsky, Cody Firearms Museum, Danny Michael, Gun Culture, Guns, Light Over Heat, new gun owners, Wyoming
On my recent road trip to Wyoming, I stopped in Cody to visit the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Curator Danny Michael was good enough to give me a tour of the museum and I later went back and filmed some additional bits to create three...
by David Yamane | Jun 7, 2023 | Gun Culture, gun ownership, gun safety, Light Over Heat, mental health, new gun owners, Walk the Talk America
A colleague of mine, David Zehrung, is a psychologist practicing in Pennsylvania. He will be speaking this month to the Pennsylvania Psychological Association about firearms. He asked me to provide a 3-minute overview of what I’d like psychologists to know about gun...
by David Yamane | Oct 31, 2022 | AAPI, Asian Americans, COVID19, Data, gun ownership, Guns, new gun owners, Personal Protection, racism, Risk
As a gunologist, not to mention an Asian-American gun owner, a recent episode of the Red, Blue & Brady podcast on racism against the AAPI community and gun ownership caught my attention. The episode focused on a recently published study by a group of public health...
by David Yamane | Sep 13, 2022 | Gun Culture, Liberal Gun Club, new gun owners, Podcast
I recently received an update from the gun curious podcaster I spoke with earlier this year. He has now taken a 4-hour basic handgun course (with live fire) and plans to take additional courses then apply for his New Jersey firearm license. His is an increasingly...
by David Yamane | Mar 25, 2022 | COVID19, Data, Gun Culture, gun ownership, gun policy, National Opinion Research Center, new gun owners, race
Like many, I have been touting the changing face of gun owners, especially in connection with the great gun buying spree of 2020+. I have discussed this in Discourse Magazine in February 2021, at the Outdoor Writers Association of American annual conference in October...
by David Yamane | Mar 4, 2022 | John Johnston, K.A. Clark, new gun owners, new shooters, Risk, Shooting
Now that I have been wandering around American gun culture for over a decade, I consume fewer gun-related podcasts than I used to. Time is my scarcest resource and as podcasts have proliferated, the signal-to-noise ratio is often too low to merit the investment. That...
