Introducing ‘The Gun Machine’, a podcast about how America was forged by the gun industry

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WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.2 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

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 government ever since.

Host Alain Stephens examines how this 250-year relationship underpins all Americans’ interactions with guns — including our failures in dealing with the fallout of gun violence.

The Gun Machine debuts on Oct. 4, 2023. Listen and follow on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music and wherever you get your podcasts.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Ben Brock Johnson, Executive Producer of Podcasts at WBUR.
0:05.0	We have a new project that is right about to launch,
0:08.8	which is why we are popping into this feed to give you a preview.
0:12.6	Be sure that you search and follow the show after listening if you want to hear more.
0:17.8	Okay, let's go.
0:20.6	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
0:30.4	Maybe you've heard that there's a civil war coming.
0:32.8	Tyrants disarm the people they intend to oppress.
0:37.0	That with 111 gun deaths a day in America,
0:40.0	the powers that be are going to have to do something.
0:42.0	They don't like the Second Amendment. They want to get rid of the Second Amendment.
0:46.0	You've heard that the government has always hated an armed populace.
0:50.0	That it's always been that way from bunker hill to branched avidians.
0:54.0	All they want to do is take guns away from law-binding citizens.
0:56.0	They are coming for your firearms.
1:01.0	Democrats say they're held hostage by an all-powerful industry.
1:05.0	Republicans say they're holding an assault on Liberty at bay.
1:08.0	In real America. When we say come and take it, we damn well mean it.
1:14.0	But in my eight years of gun reporting, these dudes is tripping.
1:19.0	Guns are flying off the shelf.
1:21.0	Ghosts and gun mill in doorchester.
1:24.0	Run! Run for the gun!
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