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

Interpersonal violence and self-directed violence have long been treated as separate public health issues, but the two are more connected than previously understood, according to the findings of a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inside Philadelphia’s Evening Resource Centers for Youth In some places with curfew laws, officials have introduced centers where kids caught in violation can go if they don’t want to go home. Here’s ...

Bulletin What Does It Take to Feel Safe in America? “The gun industry isn’t just selling firearms,” Senator Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, told The Trace’s Mike Spies. “It’s selling fear, even ...

Missing Pieces Only 11 States Require Gun Owners to Report Stolen Weapons to Police Law enforcement officials say theft reports aid criminal investigations, and their understanding of gun-trafficking ...

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