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Alex Yablon was a reporter and a founding staffer at The Trace.
How We Fix This
A new program at Harborview Hospital in Seattle would borrow heavily from methods generally used in areas other than gun violence prevention.
Gun Policy
The Mental Health and Safe Communities Act would allow people who have been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital to purchase a gun immediately after their release.
National Rifle Association
John Cornyn's legislation incentivizes reporting of mental health records to the federal background check system. Critics say it could also allow some former mental patients to immediately buy firearms.
State and federal lawmakers have borrowed an idea from anti-drug policy to try to reduce gun crimes.
Background Checks
More than 1.7 million people have been blocked from buying a gun after failing federal background checks since 1998. But some reasons for denial are more common than others.
Concealed Carry
He's at least the second driver to part ways with the company after violating its recent gun ban.
As Los Angeles considers the latest version of the contentious policy, here are four key things to know about a recurring gun safety fight.
The NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 was intended to improve lapses in state record keeping that have allowed dangerous people like Dylann Roof to get a gun. Here’s why almost 90 percent of that money has never been spent.
Did the FBI ever complete it?
Law
Despite their popularity with police and civilian populations, the rounds are banned in international warfare by the Hague Convention.
Gun Theft
With only two states regulating how gun shops secure their inventories after hours, gun store theft is often achieved via simple brute force.
Economists on the left and right alike embrace the theory behind the levy the city council president wants to implement. But the political realities are where things get sticky.
Why gun thieves target cars, and why gun thefts of all kinds often go unreported.
But expanding them would also require a cultural change.
Extremism
Once, bombs and other explosives were a common means of destruction. Here's what's changed.