The Trace spoke to a Yale law professor about the strengths and weaknesses of the Justice Department’s proposal.

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

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 ...

Missing Pieces Law Enforcement’s Lost and Stolen Gun Problem An investigation by The Trace shows that police departments’ uneven storage rules have put deadly weapons into the hands of criminals.

Coronavirus & Guns Mass Shootings Are Soaring, With Black Neighborhoods Hit Hardest 2020 is on pace to have the most mass shootings since the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive started tracking them. In ...

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 ...

National Rifle Association The NRA Is Taking Credit For the Background Check System It Tried to Sink The group did champion the point-of-sale system we have now — but only because it hoped that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...