How the N.R.A. Uses Fear to Sell Guns

Mike Weisser runs a blog called Mike the Gun Guy and describes himself as a “gun nut beyond all gun nuts.” He joined the N.R.A. when he was eleven years old, a budding sportsman with a rifle; he later worked in his uncle’s business building revolvers, sold guns wholesale to law enforcement, opened a retail shop, wrote six books on guns, and is an N.R.A.-certified firearms instructor. The New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos interviewed Weisser for a story about the gun business and gun politics, and he found that Weisser’s position is unusual: while he’s all for the right to bear arms, he write damningly on his blog about the N.R.A. and how it advances its agenda through fear.

This segment originally aired on June 24, 2016