Longform

A profile of the late actor-turned NRA president.

Adapting from his book of the same name, Chivers traces how the design and proliferation of small arms, originating from the Pentagon and the Russian army, rerouted the 20th century.

Most military experts agree that robots, not people, will inevitably do the fighting in ground wars. In Tennessee, a high-end gunsmith is already there. The story of Jerry Baber and his robot army.

How two twentysomethings, equipped with the Internet and weed, ruled the lucrative world of weapons trading … for a while.

On America’s relationship with the right to bear arms, from the founding fathers to the Black Panthers and the Ku Klux Klan.

The author sits down with notorious (and recently convicted) arms dealer Viktor Bout, Bout’s brother, and a close friend.

In the days after 9/11, Mark Stroman went on a revenge killing spree in Texas. Rais Bhuiyan survived and, a decade later, tried to stop Stroman’s execution.