Patrick Blanchfield

Our country's legal history renders the teen's case familiar if not inevitable.

The next 9/11 never came. Instead, we got Sandy Hook, and Las Vegas, and Parkland…

How the United States became the world’s police force.

The violent rise of white supremacy after the Vietnam War.

A new history argues that the Second Amendment was intended to perpetuate white settlers' violence toward Native Americans.

The U.S. has long supplied the world with AR-15 rifles. But only when we see its grim effects at home do politicians call for restricting its sale.

Patrick Blanchfield tracks the long-standing entanglement of guns and religion in the United States. Part 1 of 2.