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gracias we can out do this without you FUTURO. Hey Latino USA listener, so this is a sobering reality.

We know it all. Too many lives are lost to guns across the United States every single day. Mass shootings have

devastated entire communities in El Paso, in Uvaldi, both of where I have been,

tragedies that have broken our collective hearts and that we've covered here at

Latino USA. And the first question we usually ask is, why did this happen? But a new

podcast called The Gun Machine from our colleagues at W-B-U-R and The Trace seeks to

remind us what we usually forget that in this and the

trace seeks to remind us what we usually forget that in this country there are centuries of history of violence that got us here

hosted by reporter Alan Stevens the gun machine looks into the past to understand

where we are now. For example, how early partnerships between mad scientist gunsmiths and a fledgling US government that

actually created the gun industry in the Northeast and a look at how that

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