Alain Stephens
@AlainStephens
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"Heavy Metal" reporter covering arms trafficking and violence. +Host of The Gun Machine podcast 📻 @wbur
San Diego, CA
Joined May 2014
RT @mikespiesnyc: Impressive work from @champebarton and @AlainStephens: Shot by a Civilian Wielding a Police Gun
thetrace.org
Many police departments resell or trade in their used duty weapons — a practice that has sent thousands of guns into the hands of criminals.
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RT @JenniferMascia: "More than 52,000 police guns have been involved in crimes since 2006. Many of those weapons were resold by law enforce….
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Many police departments resell or trade in their used duty weapons — a practice that has sent thousands of guns into the hands of criminals.
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RT @TraficoContra: Gun makers to ask US Supreme Court to bar Mexico's lawsuit . @AlainStephens @NoamChomskyF @AMarch4OurLives @NaomiAKlei….
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U.S. gun manufacturers plan to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their bid to escape Mexico's $10 billion lawsuit seeking to hold them responsible for facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug...
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RT @teamtrace: NEW: @ATFHQ is supposed to regulate the gun industry and protect the American public from gun crime. But the agency often fa….
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is supposed to regulate the gun industry. The Gun Machine podcast explores the gun lobby’s efforts to impede that.
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RT @TedAlcorn: If you want to stem gun violence, America's endless appetite for guns seems like cause for despair—but what if lethality is….
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Weapons-maker Byrna is touting "less lethal" guns for self-defense. Can the company find a market in a country dominated by gun lovers and gun haters?
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Its out. Guns. Money. Violence. Check out the Gun Machine: How America was forged by the Gun Industry. A new pod by @WBUR and @teamtrace . Hosted by your truly. 😈 .
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RT @teamtrace: 🎙 "The Gun Machine" — our podcast in partnership with @WBUR — is out today. In the first episode, @AlainStephens tells the….
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The first episode of the podcast explains how, without the U.S. government, the American gun industry as we know it might not exist at all.
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RT @AlainStephens: Next week I'm pulling back the curtain on the U.S government's most lucrative and deadly deadly partner. The firearms i….
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RT @teamtrace: 🎙Coming next week from @WBUR and The Trace: The Gun Machine. The podcast, hosted by @AlainStephens, explores the 250-year r….
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RT @trevoraaronson: Excited for "The Gun Machine," the new podcast series by @AlainStephens about America's crazymaking relationship with t….
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WBUR and The Trace bring you a story that most Americans never learned in history class — a new podcast about the gun industry’s grip on our country.
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Next week I'm pulling back the curtain on the U.S government's most lucrative and deadly deadly partner. The firearms industry. Welcome to: The Gun Machine a podcast by @WBUR & @teamtrace . Catch the full trailer:
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RT @voiceofsandiego: In our first-ever Happy Hour episode, special guests @AlainStephens snd @gregmoran crack open beers and spill some of….
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Few joys in life match a breezy summer night gossiping with good friends over cold drinks. And in this first-ever “Happy Hour” edition of the VOSD Podcast, that’s what we’ve […]
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RT @jamesstout: The pantsuit hurricane that we totally failed to prepare for because we gave all our money to the cops is the perfect San D….
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Co-worker: Happy Friday, lets catch up. Me: Let me tell you about Yummy Sandifer ☔️.
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Affirmative Action was a tool to balance *any* under represented group of ppl in an institution. Has been used by everyone, including and mostly by white people. But bcuz Black people also could benefit: it must be destroyed. 🙃. YT ppl will cut off their own nose off.
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Want to understand gun violence?. I mean REALLY understand it. Like, past the usual talking heads and talking points?. How bout you read a book. 📚 via @graciemckenzie @teamtrace.
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Recommended reading from the journalists of The Trace.
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