The project is also based on an ethos of team ethnography. While each PhD researcher will carry out their own in-depth fieldwork in one country and develop their own ideas and expertise, the project is aimed to operate as a collaborative effort. This approach allows researchers to experience each setting side by side, exchange perspectives, and reflect collectively on what they observe. Working as a team is especially important because the project pays close attention to the sensory and lived experience of firearms — how they look, sound, and feel in everyday life. By sharing these experiences and discussing their findings together, we can better understand each other’s viewpoints and develop richer comparisons across countries. This collaborative way of working strengthens the research and supports creative ways of presenting the project’s results to a wider public. Our first experiment of team ethnography was a team visit to the shooting range De Wildenberg in the Netherlands in October 2026. In a few hours, we engaged in clay pigeon shooting and shooting with a firearm at a range.