“People are going to continue to keep purchasing guns,” said Smith, a life coach with Chicago CRED, a violence prevention ...

Health officials are intensifying their criticism of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act’’ that was signed into law by President Donald Trump this month, warning that the bill will have compounding ...

A Decade of American Gun Violence What We Learned From Analyzing 10 Years of Shooting Data A Trace series challenges what many people might think about gun violence in America. Here are the highlights ...

The Justice Department Is Investigating Whether the NRA’s Rights Were Violated in New York Corruption Case In February 2024, a jury found the National Rifle Association and its former CEO, Wayne ...

Ghost Guns They Planned to Start a Race War. DIY Gun Kits Allowed Them to Build an Arsenal. The arrest of a white supremacist cell before the Richmond gun rally shows how extremist motives are ...

Q & A A Trump Administration Plan to Restore Some People’s Gun Rights Could Actually Protect Gun Laws The Trace spoke to a Yale law professor about the strengths and weaknesses of the Justice ...

The Military Has Strict Gun Policies. How Did the Fort Stewart Shooting Happen? Despite rules regarding carrying personal weapons, the perpetrator of the August 6 shooting was still able to bring his ...

Anaconda, Montana, is the type of small town in America that’s easy to recognize. A writer for a local lifestyle magazine called it “the sort of place where scenes from Norman Rockwell play out behind ...

Law Enforcement The ‘Warrior Cop’ Is a Toxic Mentality. And a Lucrative Industry. Police are paying firms that preach extreme vigilance and deadly force.

Ask The Trace The Gun Industry Makes Billions. But How Many Exactly? It's hard to estimate since it's made up of dozens of public and private companies. In this edition of Ask The Trace, we attempt an ...

How We Fix This This Tiny Louisiana Police Force Is a National Leader in Taking Guns From Abusers How a survivor of domestic violence, now working as a cop in the bayou, made her small community a ...

Ask The Trace Do Gun Regulations Equal Fewer Shootings? Lessons From New England Gun rights advocates often point to low rates of shootings in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont to argue that you don’t ...