Every day, 133 Americans die at the end of the gun. This level of violence is a uniquely American experience, often spotlighted after a mass shooting. When we look for answers, we focus on the incident itself and on recent history – the state of play of regulation, or lack thereof, and the current policy debate.
The Gun Machine, a podcast produced by WBUR, Boston’s NPR station, in partnership with The Trace, takes one of the most tragic and confounding forms of addiction in America and looks through a lens rarely explored: the historical marriage between government and gun manufacturers that starts in Massachusetts after the Revolutionary War and stretches throughout the country’s 250-year history, with global implications.
