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

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 more connected than previously understood, according to the findings of a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In response to readers’ questions, we explore what researchers have learned about the financial costs of gun violence — and what is left out.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Only a small percentage of New Orleans's guns were collected by authorities during Katrina, but that hasn't stopped the group's mythmakers.