The collaboration between Forensic Architecture and Praxis Films on Triple-Chaser, a video investigation into the Safariland Group produced for the 2019 Whitney Biennial, led to an open source investigation of another munitions company connected to Warren B. Kanders, vice chair of the Whitney Museum of American Art and CEO of the Safariland Group. Kanders, we learned, is the Director, Executive Chairman, and part-owner of the Clarus Corporation, which since 2017 has owned the US munitions manufacturer Sierra Bullets.

Trying to understand more about the Clarus Corporation and its connections, we called Sierra.We asked if their bullets are sold to IMI Systems, one of the Israeli army’s preferred ammunition suppliers. They said yes. We then asked if Sierra’s bullets are used by the Israeli army. We were told that the information we were looking for was confidential.

So we pieced together publicly available data from product catalogues, military manuals, and UN reports, and compared this with reports from medical professionals and images shared with us by activists on the ground. Our findings suggest that sniper bullets manufactured by Sierra were used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) against civilian protesters in Gaza in 2018.

Read the full investigation here.