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History
The 1970 shooting of student demonstrators underscores the risks of President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the military against protesters, a history professor explains.
The Bruen Era
Since the Supreme Court decided that modern gun laws should reflect America’s history and tradition, researchers have been combing through records from the country’s early days.
A 2022 Supreme Court decision that gun laws should align with the nation’s “history and tradition” has sown confusion in courtrooms and weakened longstanding limits on firearms.
In Guns We Trust
All six episodes of "Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust" are available now.
Gun restrictions were not always so fraught in America. The second episode of “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust” explains how the National Rifle Association seized on the Second Amendment to change the course of history.
The first episode of “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust” explores the legacy of the infamous mass shooting in Littleton, Colorado.
Since the mass shooting at Columbine High School 25 years ago, guns have grown ubiquitous, showing up in grocery stores, airports, and political protests, and encroaching on our lives in new and unprecedented ways.
In the coming season of "Long Shadow," Trace staffers help explain how guns became a cultural signifier as our crisis of violence spiraled.
Changemakers
Residents are challenging the city's decades-long reputation for violence as new programs show encouraging results.
Bang for the Buck
The NRA corruption trial forced its former CEO to tell the truth about himself, as the curtain dropped on a three-decade act.
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.
