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Introducing ‘The Gun Machine’: A Podcast About How America Was Forged by the...
Every time there is a mass shooting in America, the first question is why. When we look for answers, we tend to focus on the incident itself: who the shooter was, why they did it, and who parachutes...
View ArticleThe Surprising Origin Story of America’s Gun Industry
Our country would look very different without the gun industry. And without the federal government? The gun industry might not exist at all. The symbiotic relationship between the gun industry and...
View ArticleA Culture of Fear Sells Guns in the U.S. This Is How We Got Here.
Handgun advertisers often insist that firearms need to be carried for self-protection. But protection from whom? Since the earliest days of the country’s history, white Americans have used firearms to...
View ArticleHow the Mass Market Was Won
The American government funded the country’s first gun companies, but as the nation matured, manufacturers faced a dilemma. To stay afloat, they needed to build a civilian market for weapons initially...
View ArticleThe Evolution of the Crime Gun
Gun crime in the U.S. far outpaces other high-income countries — and has for more than a century. During Prohibition, Al Capone and other American gangsters used Thompson submachine guns, nicknamed...
View ArticleAmerican Cops Felt Outgunned. Their War on Crime Built a Militarized Police...
From 1966 through the 1990s, high-profile crimes committed with powerful weapons left U.S. law enforcement feeling outgunned, spurring a surge in police militarization that taxpayers often funded. In...
View ArticleHow the NRA Helped Gunmakers Become Almost Impossible to Sue
In 1999, at the end of a decade in which Gary, Indiana, had endured being labeled as the “murder capital of the nation,” then-Mayor Scott King filed a suit against gun manufacturers he believed were...
View ArticleThe Gun Industry’s Federal Watchdog Never Stood a Chance
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is supposed to regulate the gun industry and protect the American public from gun crime. But as The Trace’s past reporting has shown, the ATF...
View ArticleI’ve Told Hundreds of Stories About Gun Violence. It’s Time to Tell My Own.
Edris Thomas lives in Dallas. I’ve known her since forever, because she’s my mom’s closest friend. Her son and I grew up together. Like so many Americans, Edris lost someone to a gun. In the eight...
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