"Heavy Metal" reporter covering arms trafficking and violence. Host of The Gun Machine podcast 📻 @wbur
Joined May 2014
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16 May 2024
Impressive work from @champebarton and @AlainStephens: Shot by a Civilian Wielding a Police Gun thetrace.org/2024/05/police-…
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Alain Stephens retweeted
16 May 2024
"More than 52,000 police guns have been involved in crimes since 2006. Many of those weapons were resold by law enforcement agencies sworn to protect the public."
Stellar reporting from @AlainStephens @champebarton and @CBSNews thetrace.org/2024/05/police-…
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Alain Stephens retweeted
12 Feb 2024
Gun makers to ask US Supreme Court to bar Mexico's lawsuit
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Alain Stephens retweeted
8 Nov 2023
NEW: @ATFHQ is supposed to regulate the gun industry and protect the American public from gun crime. But the agency often falls short of that mandate.
@AlainStephens explains why this is no accident in the latest episode of The Gun Machine with @WBUR: thetr.ac/HhYRE
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Alain Stephens retweeted
2 Nov 2023
If you want to stem gun violence, America's endless appetite for guns seems like cause for despair—but what if lethality is not really what many gun buyers are shopping for? Read my @TeamTrace debut about the surprising popularity of 'less lethal' weapons. thetrace.org/2023/11/byrna-l…
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I'm a journalist not a saint.
New headshots in.
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4 Oct 2023
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. 😈
wbur.org/podcasts/short-run
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Alain Stephens retweeted
4 Oct 2023
🎙 "The Gun Machine" — our podcast in partnership with @WBUR — is out today.
In the first episode, @AlainStephens tells the story of how, without the federal government, the gun industry as we know it might not exist at all.
Listen now: thetr.ac/zXqjg
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Alain Stephens retweeted
28 Sep 2023
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: spotify.link/xforHHFTsDb
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Alain Stephens retweeted
29 Sep 2023
🎙Coming next week from @WBUR and The Trace: The Gun Machine.
The podcast, hosted by @AlainStephens, explores the 250-year relationship between the American government and the firearms industry.
Listen to the trailer below. Subscribe now ➡️ thetr.ac/zvL0e
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Alain Stephens retweeted
28 Sep 2023
Excited for "The Gun Machine," the new podcast series by @AlainStephens about America's crazymaking relationship with the gun industry. The show, from @teamtrace and @WBUR, starts Oct. 4. bit.ly/46uDLry
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Alain Stephens retweeted
15 Aug 2023
In our first-ever Happy Hour episode, special guests @AlainStephens snd @gregmoran crack open beers and spill some of their favorite stories — all about guns, the government and scandal. voiceofsandiego.org/2023/08/…
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Alain Stephens retweeted
18 Aug 2023
The pantsuit hurricane that we totally failed to prepare for because we gave all our money to the cops is the perfect San Diego metaphor
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28 Jul 2023
Co-worker: Happy Friday, lets catch up.
Me: Let me tell you about Yummy Sandifer ☔️
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3 Jul 2023
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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6 Jun 2023
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. 📚 thetrace.org/2023/06/books-t… via @graciemckenzie @teamtrace
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