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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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.

Justice Department Publishes Rule to Restore Gun Rights After Some Criminal Convictions The proposal gives the attorney general broad authority to decide who can and can’t get their gun rights ...

Texas leads the nation in road rage shootings. In September, a new state law will increase penalties for highway gun violence.

A Texas law set to take effect this year will increase penalties for road rage shootings — a response to the state’s high rates of highway violence. The crackdown comes after a 2024 analysis from The ...

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 ...