Lawmakers toughened penalties after a Trace analysis revealed that the state led the country in gun violence on the road.

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

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.

Maryland’s Data Dashboard Will Help Grassroots Organizers Interrupt Gun Violence With the real-time data, community leaders can concentrate their efforts in places where shootings remain pervasive.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ask The Trace Do Gun Regulations Equal Fewer Shootings? Lessons From New England Gun rights advocates often point to low rates of shootings in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont to argue that you don’t ...

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 ...

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 ...