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A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns—Then the N.R.A. Came to Collect

By Mike Spies · The Trace · July 2026
A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns—Then the N.R.A. Came to Collect
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"Stormy Kay was born in 1961, when her parents were young newlyweds, unprepared and thrust into adulthood. Stormy’s mother cut meat at a grocery store and taught classes at a beauty school, and her father was a construction worker. They couldn’t afford child care, so Stormy’s father took her with him to job sites. “My […]"

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