Heath Druzin
Heath Druzin is Boise State Public Radio’s Guns & America reporter, part of a national collaboration between 10 public radio stations examining all aspects of firearms in America.
He previously covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and veterans issues for Stars and Stripes newspaper. This is his second stint Idaho – he covered crime, wildfires and government for The Idaho Statesman from 2005-2008.
Most recently, Heath was living in Mongolia, where he improved his horsemanship, though not his throat singing.
Heath grew up in Northern California and when he’s not reporting, you can find him hiking, snowboarding and brewing beer.
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"[Trump] literally turned around and dropped a hand grenade into the crowd that he needs the most to win. States like Ohio, and Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin."
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A fund administered by the RAND Corporation is awarding nearly $10 million dollars to researchers across the country to study gun violence, injecting new funding into a topic that has seen relatively little attention from the scientific community over the past two decades.
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"We wanted it to be so custom that you can have your name on it, your logo on it, your tattoo that you have on your arm, we can do that, that's what we set out to do, to make it as personal as you want it." - Jim Corbet, founder of Unique ARs
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Anyone who was waiting on approval to open a gun store around the time of the shutdown was probably out of luck and it still might be a while before they can open their doors.
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Unlike most guns, you can't just show up at Walmart and take one home: It can take close to a year to get approved to purchase each machine gun.
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Far-right gun groups have adopted an effective strategy to advance their cause: using targeted campaigning to knock out state politicians who don’t pass their strict gun rights purity tests, even those who get plaudits from the National Rifle Association.
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There’s a lot of talk about guns in political campaigns this year, much of it focused on reforms aimed at preventing mass shootings.