Longread #31 -- Stoner Arms Dealers -- 3/16/12

Today's longread is about a unique startup story. Two young and entrepreneurial stoners decided to start a small arms business and ended up winning a host of federal contracts to supply guns and ammo abroad. It's a really interesting story both about these particular guys but also about the nature of the government contract system and the global small arms industry. 

"The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders" by Guy Lawson

Published in Rolling Stone, March 16, 2011

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-stoner-arms-dealers-20110316?print=true 

Eric