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In the fifth episode of The Gun Machine, we explore how gun companies court police departments across the country – and how those departments have become not only some of the biggest customers of private gun manufacturers but their guiding inspiration.

The byproduct of producing the world's most lethal guns is that criminals have them, too. We go back to the birthplace of the industry, Springfield, Mass., where nearly every young person we speak with has a story about big guns and the terror they cause in their community.

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, officials from Remington pursued deals to market their wares to “potential young shooters.”

A recent podcast that’s produced by The Trace, propaganda put out by little Daddy Bloomberg, went into detail on the alleged myth of the “Wild West.” The rhetoric and conversation seems to be motivate...

Gun advertising sows seeds of mistrust and the promotes need to carry a gun for self-protection. But protection from whom?

The American government funded the country’s first gun companies. But as the country matured, manufacturers had to find a market beyond the government to stay afloat. This created a problem: how do you convince a bunch of civilians that they need to keep buying new guns?

In episode two of The Gun Machine, host Alain Stephens travels down to Florida to attend the Pew Party, where he talks to Black gun owners about why they carry and examines the link between our nation’s fraught history and why it’s so easy to sell us guns today.

Gov. Maura Healey is set to sign a bill to enact Massachusetts' first tax cuts in over two decades. Here's a look at what state lawmakers are hoping to tackle next, from child care to prescription drugs to gun reform.

Our country would look very different without the gun industry. And without the federal government? The gun industry might not exist at all. The premier episode of The Gun Machine shares the surprising origin story of America’s foundational industry.

WBUR and The Trace bring you a story that most Americans never learned in history class — a new podcast about the gun industry’s grip on our country.