In this paper, we use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health
and latent class analysis to assess the extent to which individuals integrate guns into …

In this article, I use the 2018 Guns in American Life Survey (GALS) to investigate the
relationship between feminist identity, gun ownership, gun carrying, and women's …

In this paper, we document the social patterning of recent gun purchases to advance a
contemporary social epidemiology of the pandemic arms race. We employ cross-sectional …

Protection is now the modal motivation for gun ownership, and men continue to outnumber
women among gun owners. While research has linked economic precarity (eg, insecurity …

One limitation of the literature on gun ownership is a lack of consensus regarding how to
operationalize the dependent variable. Consequently, gun measures vary widely across …

Prior research has found that different aspects of religion (such as service attendance and
fundamentalism) have significant and varying effects on public attitudes about immigration …

In the recent renaissance of interest in guns among sociologists, studies of the political
conservatism of gun owners have proliferated, but we still know very little about politically …

Although debates over guns and gun control have roiled the contemporary political scene,
the role of religion has received only limited attention from scholars. We contribute to this …

Mass Shootings and Civilian Armament provides the first comprehensive multi-
methodological analysis of the relationship between mass shootings and firearm purchases …

Guns are a central aspect of violence in the United States. A growing body of research seeks
to understand social and psychological factors motivating gun ownership, with the concept …