On Target explores the influence of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and how we can understand the group’s impact on the American gun debate. Follow Noah as he goes inside the world's most famous advocacy group to unpack American gun culture, speaking to members and employees, visiting classrooms and gun shows, and even firing an AR-15. 

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In Targeted, Noah provides an insider’s perspective on gun culture in Canada, unpacking the differences between Canadian and American gun activism. He explores how Canadians interpret the rising pro-gun movement in the country, its self-perception, its goals, and the strategies and funding sources that sustain it.

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Available soon from Bloomsbury Academic - in Off Target, Noah evaluates Canada's new gun laws. Drawing on interviews with law enforcement, community workers and key stakeholders, as well as publicly available data and scholarship, Noah finds little evidence that these policies have made Canadians safer, and documents the harm that they have done to businesses, leisure communities and individuals across Canada.

Called to arms: the NRA, the gun culture & women. 

Published in Critical Policy Studies. This paper looks at how the National Rifle Association (NRA) uses narrative in order to bring more women into the gun culture. 

Read here: https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2019.1697892 

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Grandpa Joe's hunting rifle: morality policy framing in Canadian Parliament.

Published in Policy Sciences. How do Canadian MPs frame debates on gun control? How do practices like Question Period influence the frames that policymakers use? 

Read here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-024-09554-5 

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Toward an Evidence-Based Evaluation Framework for Gun Control Policies

Published in World Affairs. This paper lays out an evidence-based evaluation framework for proposed firearms policies, and evaluates the 2020 "assault-style" weapons ban. 

Read here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00438200221107412 

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Noah Schwartz and Tim Thurley offer recommendations for the improvement of Canadian gun policy, including the removal of the freeze on legal handgun transfers, sales, and inheritances, repealing the ban and planned confiscation of assault-style firearms, and reviewing the existing firearms classification system.

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Noah Schwartz, Ella Duncan, and Korian Deseron evaluate changes to Canadian gun control policy since 2019. While these measures are often framed as essential for public safety, they have remained largely unexamined by independent researchers – until now.

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