In recent decades, US gun rights lobbying groups, politicians, courts, and market actors
have sought to responsibilize US consumers to use firearms to address the societal problem …

Gun ownership is a key predictor of gun policy preferences, political advocacy on behalf of
gun rights, and political engagement. Theories have linked both racial and gender …

We argue that Americans' policy attitudes on firearm availability are influenced by the
identity of the prospective owner. We use an experiment to demonstrate that attitudes …

Focusing on police chiefs in three states, this study revisits the Weberian presumption of the
state's monopoly on legitimate violence. Seventy-nine interviews with police chiefs in …

This paper evaluates the existing research on Stand Your Ground (SYG) laws in terms of the
extent to which it has accounted for gender. In particular, we address (a) what the available …

This article analyzes gun carry licensing as a disciplinary mechanism that places African
American men in a liminal zone where they are legally armed but presumed dangerous …

The most prominent line-drawing debate in Second Amendment law and scholarship is
whether and to what degree the right to keep and bear arms extends outside the home …

Scholars have associated gun culture with liberal individualism, but this is inconsistent with
participants' emphasis on political duty and obligation, the dominance of White men in this …

This article investigates the gender gap in gun control attitudes, in which women are more
likely to support gun control than men. Women are less likely than men to own a gun and to …

Gun ownership is a highly consequential political behavior. It often signifies a belief about
the inadequacy of state-provided security and leads to membership in a powerful political …