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Data
About 1.6 million guns were sold in March, according to seasonally adjusted estimates.
Gun violence is felt unevenly across America. But no community is immune.
Seven years. 240,000 shootings. How has gun violence marked your corner of the country?
Politics
Big spending by gun reform groups in suburban districts helped Democrats win the House, while NRA-backed Republicans flipped Senate seats in Trump country.
National Rifle Association
The NRA doesn’t want its “enemies” to see its candidate ratings in one place. We scraped the data, and found a surge in Republicans docked for breaking ranks.
Ask The Trace
The answer’s complicated.
Bang for the Buck
The gun group broke its own record in every election between 2010 and 2016. This year, it's suddenly thrifty.
The agency has more confidence in its estimates of BB gun injuries.
The United States, home to 4 percent of the world’s population, accounted for more than a third of its gun suicides in 2016, according to a sweeping analysis of global firearm deaths published yesterday in The Journal of the…
American Violence puts up-to-date data at the fingertips of researchers, journalists, and policymakers.
Our NRA Campaign Spending Tracker analyzes FEC reports to show you exactly how much the group is putting behind its favored candidates.
Our tool lets you follow the gun group’s support of political candidates in real time.
ATF
One expert characterized the findings of The Trace's analysis as “more evidence that gun regulation advocates are closing the participation gap.”
Survivors of the Florida massacre challenged the media to pay attention. Data shows how successful they were.
Active Shooting
More Americans were killed or wounded by active shooters in 2017 than in any year since the Federal Bureau of Investigation began keeping track. All told, nearly 750 people were shot in 30 incidents, according to a newly…
The vast majority of urban homicides are the product of gun violence. But the cities with the highest rates may surprise you. (Spoiler: Chicago falls in the middle of the list.)
