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The gun industry is inextricable from the American government and, for many, American identity. But with more than 100 Americans dying from shootings everyday, and even more being wounded, how do we begin to calculate the cost of our country's current relationship with guns?
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.
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?
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.