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Shootings are down, but the programs that helped get them down have been slashed. Get oriented with The Trace’s best stories ...

The gun industrial complex, with powerful lobbyists and backers like the National Rifle Association, have stayed ahead of the ...

Last week, Charlie Kirk was shot and killed in Utah while answering a question about gun violence in America. Hours later, a Colorado high school was added to the nation’s grim tally of school ...

When it comes to curbing gun violence in America, the field of public health should consider focusing less on the guns themselves and more on a rising sense of distrust that makes people reach for ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 11: Erica Ford speaks during March for Our Lives 2022 on June 11, 2022 in Washington, DC. Erica Ford is a gun violence prevention activist and founder of LIFE Camp, an ...

More than 3,700 children died or were injured in gun incidents in 2019. In Watertown, Connecticut, you can hear the squeak of a swing's chain as it glides back and forth, along with the laughter of ...

A Democratic senator who was a champion of gun reforms in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting in his state blamed Donald ...

Overall crime has dipped every year since 2016 in the city. It's the most populous city in New Jersey with over 280,000 residents and regarded as one of its most dangerous. Crime has plagued the city ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. September was another brutal month for ...

The country has long looked warily at the cycle of gun violence in the United States, where meaningful changes in policy have ...

On April 28, 1996, an Australian man took two semiautomatic rifles to the seaside town of Port Arthur and killed 35 people.