Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org.

I'm me and Masters, and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with the arrest of a 26-year-old at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania,

who had a ghost gun with a 3D-printed silencer in his backpack,

which was allegedly used to assassinate the CEO of United Healthcare,

and examine why untraceable and undetectable firearms are so easily available as kits for anyone

with a 3D printer to work around the gun laws in states that have them.

Joining us is John Donahue, a professor of law at Stanford Law School and Research Associate

at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has written numerous publications on gun control policy and is the author of

shooting down the more guns, less crime hypothesis.

Then, with the shooter likely to get the book thrown at him, while corporate CEOs will

be getting enhanced private security, we will look into our two-tiered system

of justice where street criminals get harsh sentences while corporate criminals often get a slap on

the wrist. Joining us to discuss the eagerness to incarcerate America's most marginalized citizens

while never developing the capacity to consistently prosecute corporate wrongdoing,

is Anthony Grasso, a professor of political science at Rutgers University.

He studies American political development, law, criminal justice, and racial and class

inequality, and is the author of the new book Just Out, Dual Justice, America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime.

Then finally we'll speak with John Storr, a fellow at Yale's Ezra Stiles College, a contributing writer for the Washington Monthly, a contributing editor for religion dispatches, and senior editor at

Altaned and Raw Story. He is the editor and publisher of the editorial board, a daily newsletter

about politics in plain English for the common good, and we will discuss his article at

Raw Story, Cash Patel's top enemy probably isn't who you think it is.

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