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Bang for the Buck
We’re tracking the gun group’s 2020 election expenditures in real time.
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.
The gun group broke its own record in every election between 2010 and 2016. This year, it's suddenly thrifty.
Data
The agency has more confidence in its estimates of BB gun injuries.
American Violence puts up-to-date data at the fingertips of researchers, journalists, and policymakers.
Is there something that just doesn’t make sense to you when it comes to guns and gun violence in America? A statistic you’ve been searching for, but haven’t been able to locate? Are you curious about the stories behind the…
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.
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.)
Background Checks
A bill to give the state a tool to crack down on "lie-and-try" gun buyers awaits action from lawmakers.
An analysis of more than 800 official statements.
In the week following the Las Vegas massacre on October 1, polls showed that nearly 75 percent of registered voters in gun-owning households supported a ban on bump stocks. Yet despite the public sentiment, an analysis by The…
Update: The CDC’s official tally of 2017 gun deaths has been released. Excluding most suicides, at least 15,549 people were killed by guns in the United States in 2017, according to data collected by Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a…
