Produced by WBUR, Boston’s NPR, in partnership with The Trace, The Gun Machine looks into the past to bring you a story that most Americans never learned in history class: how early partnerships between mad scientist gunsmiths and a fledgling U.S. government created the gun industry in the Northeast, and how that industry has been partners with the governmen ... Show More
Mar 2024
Kind World presents: "Beyond All Repair," a new podcast about an unsolved murder and a woman who wasn’t believed
<p>Introducing <em>Beyond All Repair, </em>a new WBUR podcast hosted by Amory Sivertson. This series tells the story of a murder, but also the woman who was accused of that murder, Sophia.</p>
<p>Sophia was newly married and six months pregnant when she was charged with murderin ... Show More
25m 28s
Oct 2023
Introducing 'The Gun Machine' Ep. 1: The U.S. gun industry's surprising origin story
Hey, threadheads. It's a different day than we'd normally be in your feed, and we HAVE... something different for you! It's the first episode of a new series from WBUR, our home station, of course, and The Trace. It's called "The Gun Machine," and it's an 8-part series about the ... Show More
40m 12s
May 2022
Our (machine) gun problem
For less than $20 plus shipping everyday people can turn their handguns into machine guns. The Trace’s Alain Stephens explains the rise of the “auto-sear.”
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Richard Sima and Laura Bullard, enginee ... Show More
26m 6s
Feb 2018
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - The Gun Show
<p>The shooting in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018, reignited an increasingly familiar debate about guns in this country. Today, we’re re-releasing a <em>More Perfect </em>episode that aired just after the Las Vegas shooting last year that attempts to make sense of our cou ... Show More
1h 9m