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In Guns We Trust
The Trace is also a finalist for IRE's Freedom of Information Award for its investigation into police guns.
The Business of Guns
In a new episode of “Reveal,” The Trace’s Alain Stephens reports on how law enforcement agencies routinely resell their used guns to buy new ones.
All six episodes of "Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust" are available now.
The final episode of “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust" explores the effects of school shootings and active shooter drills on a generation of kids who grew up in a climate of fear. Some of them are now leading the gun safety movement.
In episode 5 of “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust,” host Garrett Graff speaks with the architect of the seismic District of Columbia v. Heller case about his search for the perfect plaintiff.
In Episode 4 of “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust," host Garrett Graff speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Cameron McWhirter and former NRA lobbyist Richard Feldman about the political climate that propelled assault-style weapons into the mainstream.
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.
