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Taylor focuses on the value that gun owners place on their guns and the possibility that different guns mean different things to their owners. His research explores the symbolic meaning of guns, and the ways in which the meaning assigned to guns influences gun ownership and use. Some of the more interesting findings center around conversations with gun collectors and enthusiasts about a series of interaction rituals; rituals pertaining to being a gun owner, a gun user, and possibly even the gun as an object of near-worship. Gun owners also recognize a unique stigma, and respond through a compl

Firearms --- Firearms ownership --- Guns --- Small arms --- Weapons --- Shooting --- Gun ownership --- Ownership of firearms --- Social aspects --- History. --- Collectors and collecting --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Industrial & Management Engineering --- History --- United States

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In January 2007, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly wanted to make sure that his department was doing everything necessary to minimize the unnecessary discharge of firearms. He asked the RAND Corporation to examine the quality and completeness of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) firearm-training program and identify potential improvements in the design and delivery of the curriculum, the technology used, the frequency and duration of training sessions, the tactics and procedures on which the training is based, and the police department's firearm-discharge review process. This monograph reports the observations, findings, and recommendations of that study.

Moral education. --- Police shootings. --- Police shootings --- Police training --- Firearms --- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Evaluation --- Study and teaching --- Use in crime prevention --- Evaluation. --- New York (N.Y.). --- Guns --- Small arms --- Police --- Deadly force used by police --- Police use of deadly force --- Shootings by police --- Use of deadly force by police --- Training of --- New York (City). --- NYPD --- Weapons --- Shooting --- Police professionalization --- Training --- Police patrol --- Suicide by cop