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My new story, about profiting from gun suicide: www.thetrace.org/2026/07/gun-... Published in partnership with @thetrace.org and @newyorker.com

Parting ShotStormy Kay was born in 1961, when her parents were young newlyweds, unprepared and thrust into adulthood. Stormy’s mother cut meat at a grocery store and taught classes at a beauty school, and her fat...www.thetrace.org

SCOTUS just killed Hawaii's requirement to get permission to carry a firearm onto private property. But according to the industry's own research, “a majority of gun owners and conservatives also don’t feel safe when it comes to concealed carry.” www.thetrace.org/2025/07/gun-...

Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, the Gun Industry’s Own Research RevealsThe gun industry is pushing Congress to loosen restrictions on carrying, even though routine carrying makes even its customers feel less safe.www.thetrace.org

"Eight months before Cole Tomas Allen sprinted past a security checkpoint with his shotgun in an alleged attempt to kill President Donald J. Trump, he walked into Turner’s Outdoorsman in Torrance, California, and purchased the weapon, a Mossberg pump-action 12-gauge."

Populism

Huh. I always thought it was weird that my doctor dresses up like Jesus during my annual physical and lays hands on my forehead, but I guess that’s just the norm.

Here’s something Ron Johnson once said: “You know, there’s a reason Greenland was called Greenland. It was actually green at one point in time. And it’s been, you know, since, it’s a whole lot whiter now so we’ve experienced climate change throughout geologic time.”

Just received the following push alert from wapo: “The Interior Department reached a settlement to pay France’s TotalEnergies [$1 billion] not to pursue two offshore wind farms but direct the investments toward fossil fuels.”

Remember when the Obama admin invested $500 million in a solar company and the company didn’t pan out and GOP lawmakers and the conservative press said it was the biggest scandal of all time?

I continue to find it mystifying that lack of trust in media is portrayed as a consequence of the media’s actions, as opposed to a decades’ long conservative project—beginning w the Nixon admin—to discredit the media as a biased organ of the dem party. Ppl should revisit the watergate pressers.

"An additional 18 people reported P320 injuries in 2025, including...a Utah man shot through the penis on Valentine’s Day." Stunning reporting by my @thetrace.org colleague, Champe Barton: www.thetrace.org/2026/02/sig-...

Even a Decade of Unintentional Shootings Could Not Slow America’s Top Pistol MakerSIG Sauer’s P320 has prompted scores of lawsuits for alleged safety issues. Insiders say a push to make more guns led to shoddy manufacturing.www.thetrace.org

If you want to buy and read a book written by AI, I’m sorry to say that there is no hope for you

My take on what has transpired in Minneapolis, published in partnership with @thetrace.org and @motherjones.com www.thetrace.org/2026/02/gun-...

The Violent Reckoning the Gun Rights Movement Long Wanted Is Playing Out in MinneapolisThe 2A crowd warned about tyranny and “jack-booted government thugs,” while also building a shadow army amped up on the idea of crushing  domestic opponents. After a decade on the beat, The Trace's Mi...www.thetrace.org

Re: #3: This is not actually a new rule

What happened during the anti-covid lockdown protests?

Senator Markwayne Mullin on the purpose of the 2nd amendment: “Our founding fathers understood the essential role of an armed citizenry in safeguarding individual liberties and deterring tyranny. This right is a cornerstone of our democracy and must be upheld without compromise.” Did he mean it?

Ted Cruz on the 2nd amendment: “It is a Constitutional right to protect your children, your family, your home, our lives, and to serve as the ultimate check against governmental tyranny — for the protection of liberty.” Does he still believe that?

What do gun rights advocates say is the purpose of the second amendment?

ICE’s attacks are the latest form of rightwing political violence. It’s just state sanctioned now.

It’s not just that. What’s happening now is the payoff after decades of theater in service of helping wealthy conservatives preserve their wealth. While they would not share the spoils, they bequeathed the right to commit violence, which provides its own kind of power, and now the chickens are home

The basis of the gun rights movement, under the movement’s interpretation of the 2nd amendment, has crumbled before our eyes. As the gov’t turns arms against its people, the movement’s leaders, followers, legal scholars, and GOP allies have been silent. Ditto for SCOTUS’s conservative bloc.