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 ...

The Industry What Are 3D-Printed Guns, and Why Are They Controversial? Breaking down the technology, the legality, and the ideology of a growing movement.

Suicide 10 Essential Facts About Guns and Suicide More than two-thirds of all gun deaths are self-inflicted.

Commentary The Very Essential Work of Street-Level Violence Prevention On the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, outreach workers are going beyond their mission of preventing shootings by filling ...

Chicago Chicago Still Isn’t the Murder Capital of America Last year was the city's bloodiest in decades. But others continue to record higher homicide rates — and the hardest hit neighborhoods are ...

Elections What Harris and Trump Might Do About Guns If Elected Heading into the presidential candidates’ first debate, we take a look at their records on guns and the policies they might pursue as ...

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 ...

Public Health ‘A Direct Attack on Science:’ Trump’s Return Is Rattling Gun Violence Researchers Days after the inauguration, White House directives and pledges to cut public health funding are already ...

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 ...

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The number of gun deaths excluding suicides in 2022 declined slightly compared to 2021, a year that saw the most gun deaths on record. This total, tracked by the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive since ...

The Gun Violence Archive is America’s sole source for detailed data on gun injuries and deaths, a decade of which became available for the first time at the end of 2023. We’re mining the data for ...