Length4h 22m
About this audiobook
Nothing Is Loaded is a Poetic Cinema investigation into the complete system behind the gun. When three hundred legal firearms disappear from a delivery truck and enter a neighborhood, Nothing and his unusual investigative cast refuse to begin the story with the frightened child holding the final weapon. They follow it backward—through the street, distributor, factory, advertising, cinema, policing, government, religion, and the colonial history of Hispaniola. Blending dark comedy, lived testimony, historical memory, and philosophical questioning, Vernon Snell examines how the same weapon becomes merchandise, protection, authority, entertainment, evidence, and tragedy depending on whose hand holds it. The gun may control the next second, but the hospital, family, and community inherit the years that follow. Who loaded the system before somebody loaded the gun?
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Humor
Length4 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 24, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1NOTHING IS LOADED
26“Something unaccounted for.”
2Dedication
27“No one.”
3Epigraph
28“Potentially.”
4The Cast
29“Did the warning label?”
5The Truck That Lost Nothing
30“Exactly.”
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6“At four in the morning?”
31LOCAL TEEN ARRESTED AFTER WEAPON RECOVERY
7Everybody froze.
32Serious stood.
8Two for a thousand.
33Community violence.
9“The truck.”
34The commercial continued.
10The shipment.
35“Yes. Legally.”
11“Yes.”
36“Protection.”
12COMMUNITY FIREARM RESPONSE AND RESTORATION INITIATIVE
37The attorney read from a prepared page:
13“Yes, sir?”
38DISTRIBUTOR — TRUCK — SELLER — MOVIE — FEAR — STREET
14Gunfire.
39“Consumer.”
15Cereal.
40The Neighborhood Gun Factory That Never Existed
16“Were there witnesses?”
41“Workers?”
17“Good from what?”
42“From ourselves?”
18“Find what?”
43DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY CORRECTION
19“The streets.”
44“Very efficient.”
20Then another.
45“Yes.”
21A louder shadow.
46“Why?”
22“No,” Malik said.
47“How?”
23They saw Malik.
48“Yes.”
24Inventory Discrepancy
49“The same feeling without a receipt.”
25“By whom?”
50“Political lobbying?”
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