Lawmakers toughened penalties after a Trace analysis revealed that the state led the country in gun violence on the road.

Extremism A Running List of Gun Arrests Tied to the U.S. Capitol Attack Civilians didn't open fire on January 6, but that doesn’t mean the Trump supporters who congregated at the Capitol weren’t armed ...

Chicago A Promising Violence Prevention Program in Chicago Faces a Massive Budget Setback READI addresses shootings by tackling joblessness, but without public funding, its future is in doubt.

On Thursday, a panel of the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a New York state “public nuisance” law that requires gun companies to carefully monitor the distribution and marketing of their ...

Different Types of Gun Violence Contribute to Bloodshed on Independence Day The trend of more shootings during the Fourth of July weekend is changing. How are various firings contributing to this ...

The Politics of Post-Tragedy Conspiracies For people in power, conspiracy can be useful in the wake of disaster.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...