Gun Country is an ongoing, multi-format project that reboots the conversation about guns in America.

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Gun Country weaves together news, storytelling, dialog and advocacy, to explore the hold guns have on us, and to amplify efforts to reduce gun violence.

 

News/Updates

 

A selection of stories or opinions to help you navigate the world's most well-armed society. Updated regularly.

 
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Texas’ complex relationship with firearms.


The Texas Tribune does a deep dive on the state's relationship with guns. Decades of data paint a surprising picture of a state with declining gun ownership but one that leads in gun sales.

 
 

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Half-Cocked

 

HEAR the trailer for Half-Cocked, a speculative fiction podcast about a self-assured gun lobbyist whose life careens off the tracks, threatening to topple the entire gun industry. This fictional story is bolstered by factual commentary, giving stakeholders in the gun debate a voice.


GO DEEPER: Watch Warren Burger's takedown of the gun lobby, as featured in the Half-Cocked trailer, and learn how fellow former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens would amend the Second Amendment.

 

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