The ATF, charged with policing the gun industry, lets dealers get away with falsifying records and selling firearms without background checks.
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The Industry
About 1.4 million guns were sold in August, according to seasonally adjusted estimates.
Data
Five Democratic senators sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Friday, pressing the agency about issues with the nonfatal firearm injury estimates published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s the…
Election 2020
We polled every campaign on an array of gun policies. Here’s what they said.
Bang for the Buck
How vendors and executives are bleeding the gun group dry.
The Business of Guns
Some replica firearms are virtually indistinguishable from deadly weapons, adding peril to encounters with police. Can you tell the difference?
In the past 20 years, 165 mass shootings have occurred, an analysis by The Trace and The New Yorker has found.
This story was published in partnership with FiveThirtyEight. Eleven senators have sent a letter to the head of the Department of Health and Human Services, demanding answers to a series of questions about the Centers for Disease Control…
“You just can’t use those numbers,” said one of the nation’s leading public health researchers, after viewing the agency’s most recent figures.
Here are the facts about all ten inquiries into the gun rights group.
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.
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.
