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The Gun Machine
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is supposed to regulate the gun industry. The seventh episode of The Gun Machine explores the gun lobby’s efforts to impede the agency.
In 1999, as the nation recovered from a decade of record homicides, more than 30 cities came together to hold major gun companies accountable. They faced a formidable foe — an NRA at the pinnacle of its power.
In the fifth episode of The Gun Machine, we explore how and when police departments across the country began to stockpile their armories with high-powered weapons and gear.
In this episode of The Gun Machine, we take a closer look at the one group of customers the firearms industry doesn’t want you to think about: criminals.
To build a civilian firearms market, U.S. gun manufacturers pioneered myths about the American West that live on to this day.
In episode two of The Gun Machine, Alain Stephens explores the history of gun ownership in America — including the racist roots of the Second Amendment — and talks to Black gun owners about why they carry.
In the first episode of The Gun Machine, Alain Stephens tells the story of how, without the federal government, the gun industry as we know it might not exist at all.
WBUR and The Trace bring you a story that most Americans never learned in history class — about the firearms industry’s grip on our country.
Community Violence
New research contends that a surge in handgun production and possession propelled murder rates in American cites — until new restrictions on firearms reversed the trendlines.
History
Second Amendment activists and their Republican allies in Congress are pushing to slash a more than 80-year-old law regulating the sale of gun silencers. The proposal, included as a plank of the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreation Enhancement Act, has…
Most of the incidents were shootings.
Why Time and Newsweek refused to run the group's startling ad.
Firearms manufacturers and the gun lobby now act in lockstep, but it wasn’t always that way.
This 1824 document banned firearms for the future students of the University of Virginia.
Culture
Backers of a Mississippi bill extending Stand Your Ground to houses of worship are the latest gun-owning Christians to claim the support of scripture, but their views may have more earthly origins.
