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 scholars who fielded a national survey of 916 AsianContinue reading “Racism Against the AAPI Community and Gun Ownership”
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New Data on New Gun Owners and Gun Policy Preferences
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 2021, in Episode 3 of my “Light Over Heat” video seriesContinue reading “New Data on New Gun Owners and Gun Policy Preferences”
Gun Culture 2.0 and the Changing Face of Gun Owners in America
I was fortunate to be asked to present on “Guns in America” at the annual conference of the Outdoor Writers Association of America yesterday (6 October 2021). I discussed “Gun Culture 2.0 and the Changing Face of Gun Owners in America.” I was fairly certain that the presentation would not be recorded, so before IContinue reading “Gun Culture 2.0 and the Changing Face of Gun Owners in America”
Sociology of Guns Module 3: Gun Culture 2.0, the Great Gun Buying Spree of 2020+, and the Changing Face of Gun Owners
This module takes up the demographics of gun ownship, the Great Gun Buying Spree of 2020+, and the changing face of American gun owners. We know from many surveys over a long period of time that the statistically average legal gun owner is a middle-aged, politically conservative, married, white man from a rural area inContinue reading “Sociology of Guns Module 3: Gun Culture 2.0, the Great Gun Buying Spree of 2020+, and the Changing Face of Gun Owners”
Student Gun Range Field Trip: Triggers and Cognitive Dissonance
In response to my recent post about prepping for Sociology of Guns V7.0, reader DZ asked: I’m curious. Have any of your students been “triggered” by the range trip? Are any affected emotionally by shooting a firearm for the first time? Have you had students refuse to participate? These are great questions that I amContinue reading “Student Gun Range Field Trip: Triggers and Cognitive Dissonance”
Great Gun Buying Spree of 2020: Collected Works About
The COVID-19 pandemic compounded by the George Floyd protests and riots mixed with the boogaloo/CW2/Great Awakening V leading up to a hotly contested presidential election created a literally unprecedented gun buying spree in 2020. This post collects various blog posts, stories, and studies I have come across that I think have some value. If youContinue reading “Great Gun Buying Spree of 2020: Collected Works About”
Gun Culture 2.0 and the Great Gun Buying Spree of 2020
Late in 2020 an editor from the online magazine Discourse contacted me to see if I wanted to write anything about my work on American gun culture for them. The invitation provided an excellent opportunity for me to formalize some of my scattered thoughts on the Great Gun-Buying Spree of 2020. I quickly agreed. ItContinue reading “Gun Culture 2.0 and the Great Gun Buying Spree of 2020”
I Read This Study of COVID-19 Firearms Sales So You Don’t Have To
I was excited, initially, when I found yet another recently published scholarly article on the COVID-19 pandemic gun buying spree of 2020. I have already noted an interesting study that uses NICS data to highlight how the COVID spree differs from other spikes in gun buying. And a study that compares new COVID gun buyersContinue reading “I Read This Study of COVID-19 Firearms Sales So You Don’t Have To”
New Gun Owners: Collected Works About
Although there are and have always been new guns owners every year, the Great Gun Buying Spree of 2020 may entail more new gun owners than normal. It has certain generated more interest in new gun owners than normal. The COVID-19 pandemic compounded by the George Floyd protests and riots mixed with the boogaloo/CW2/Great AwakeningContinue reading “New Gun Owners: Collected Works About”
New Gun Owners and Firearm Purchasing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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 University of Washington and published in the journal Injury Prevention.Continue reading “New Gun Owners and Firearm Purchasing During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
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