The Trace spoke to a Yale law professor about the strengths and weaknesses of the Justice Department’s proposal.

Interpersonal violence and self-directed violence have long been treated as separate public health issues, but the two are ...

Criminal Justice A Powerful Database Helps Solve Gun Crimes. Only Two States Require Police to Use It. New Jersey and Delaware have laws mandating that investigators use an innovative ballistics ...

America has the highest gun suicide rate of any country on earth. Its gun homicide rate, meanwhile, ranks about 30th. As Tim’s question suggests, some people, often gun-rights advocates, wonder if ...

National Rifle Association A Top NRA Executive’s Trail of Business Flops and Unpaid Debt As the gun group confronts serious financial straits, it has entrusted its operations to Josh Powell, a failed ...

Culture A Fraternal Group Says It’s Dedicated to Child Welfare. So Why Do Its Local Chapters Raffle Guns? Guns have been the leading cause of death among young Americans since 2021. Yet the local ...

A Democrat with an ‘A’ Grade from the NRA? There’s One Left. At the same time, 94 percent of Republican candidates remain in the group's good graces.

Chicago In Chicago, ShotSpotter Sparks a Political Power Struggle The fight over the gunshot detection technology has escalated between the mayor and a group of alderpeople, who have tried to block ...

Mass Shooting A Guide to Understanding Mass Shootings in America How do attacks like the one in Lewiston, Maine, fit into America’s larger gun violence crisis? Our team corrects some common ...

Concealable handguns have been involved in a majority of mass attacks for decades. But the use of rifles is becoming more common.