Inside the US gun industry
There are more guns than people in the United States,
and the industry is still able to sell almost 2m a month. Ryan Busse, a former
gun company executive, explains how we got here
Presented
by Nosheen Iqbal with Ryan Busse; produced by Joshua Kelly, Ruth Abrahams and
Rudi Zygadlo; executive producers are Elizabeth Cassin and Phil Maynard
Mon 30 May
2022 03.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2022/may/30/inside-us-gun-industry-podcast
Last
Tuesday, 19 children and two teachers were killed in a mass shooting in Uvalde,
Texas. The devastating incident was the 27th school shooting in the United
States this year.
“I want to
say that I was shocked and stunned … but I really feel none of that,” said Ryan
Busse, who was a senior executive in a US gun company for two decades. “These
are the natural outcomes of this system in America that we’ve had established
here.”
Busse left
the industry in 2020 after becoming disillusioned with its direction. His book,
Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalised America, documents
his time in the industry. He tells Nosheen Iqbal how the gun industry became
less regulated, and the weapons more lethal.
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