 Back in 2017, when he was a new reporter, Alon did a story for Reveal where he interviewed a retired ATF agent named Scott Thomason, who'd done some crazy undercover work in his career. One time, Scott posed as an arms trafficker and was cutting a deal with a neo-Nazi who robbed a drug cartel. He sold me a Smith & Wesson revolver, a big chrome, shiny handgun revolver.