“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 ...

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 ...

For the Gun Industry, Fear Is Big Business Gun rights proponents argued that removing firearms permit requirements would make people safer. Industry research shows that it’s made people more afraid.

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 ...

New York Has Some of the Strongest Gun Laws in the Nation, Governor Kathy Hochul Says But she called on Congress to pass a national assault weapons ban. “The time to act is now.” ...

What Happens After Community Violence Intervention Programs Lose Funding? Workers fear that their progress on reducing shootings could reverse course.

A Pennsylvania court ruled September 28 that a law that has for decades insulated the gun industry from lawsuits is unconstitutional. The opinion quashes an attempt by the Illinois-based gun ...

Politics 7 Ways Biden Could Go It Alone on Gun Violence Prevention Republican control of the Senate would stymie the new administration's most ambitious gun policy proposals, but still leaves several ...

A year before gun rights groups sued to stop California from collecting information on firearms ownership, the NRA’s chief researcher acknowledged that its advocacy prevents accurate studies.