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Podcast
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.
Announcements
This position will pioneer new ways to leverage data and visualizations for better coverage of gun violence in America, one of the country’s most urgent public health issues.
Data
The Trace is launching an initiative that will help journalists access data on one of America’s most critical — and opaque — public health crises.
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.
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Year in Review
Highlights from a year on the gun violence beat.
These are the stories from across the media landscape that stuck with us.
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The Gun Machine
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.
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