Despite being born and raised in Japan where personal ownership of firearms is strictly regulated, Terry Yano has had an earnest interest in guns from age 11. His enthusiasm for guns and shooting sports eventually led him to the United States where he studied at America’s oldest gunsmith school, Trinidad State Junior College (now known as Trinidad State College) in 1996. He submitted his first article to a Japanese firearms magazine in 1997 while he was at school, earned an A.A.S. degree in Gunsmithing in 1998, and became a full-time firearms writer/photographer in 2010 after working for a Japanese car parts manufacturer for almost 10 years.
