The role of the gun industry in America’s gun violence epidemic.
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In Guns We Trust
Episode 3 of “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust" profiles the key individuals behind the gun group's central philosophy: the right to — and need for — armed self-defense.
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.
In the coming season of "Long Shadow," Trace staffers help explain how guns became a cultural signifier as our crisis of violence spiraled.
The Gun Machine
In February 2008, reporter Alain Stephens's father took his own life with a firearm. In the final episode of The Gun Machine, Stephens meets with others who lost loved ones to guns — and tries to make sense of the senseless.
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.
Active Shooting
Living through the era of school shootings, one drill at a time.
Aftermath
After surviving a bullet wound, Hollan Holm responded with dark humor. But after 20 years, he stopped being able to outrun his trauma.