“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Red Flag Laws Will Maine’s Permissive Gun Laws Change After the Lewiston Shooting? The state has high rates of gun ownership, yet mass shootings were virtually unheard of — until now.

Top Story Gun sales apparently dropped in 2023, according to background check data from the FBI, marking the third straight year of decline following a major uptick in 2020. According to The Trace’s ...