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Good morning, Bulletin readers. In the final installment of our three-part series on solutions to community gun violence, a former federal and state policymaker draws from his new book to argue why violence prevention…
Good morning, Bulletin readers. In part two of this week’s series on solutions to community gun violence, Midwest Correspondent Brian Freskos provides a deep dive on the campaign afoot in Chicago to slash homicides to…
Good morning, Bulletin readers. In today’s roundup: A new threat to the NRA’s finances, fresh money for gun violence prevention programs, and the end of a Democratic candidacy uniquely built on aggressive gun control. Let’s get to it. Receive this…
Good morning, Bulletin readers. Welcome back from the holiday weekend. Your Monday roundup continues below. Receive this daily news briefing by email every morning. Sign up here. WHAT TO KNOW TODAY A maddening holiday ritual: Celebratory…
Domestic Violence
Following The Trace’s reporting, Attorney General William Barr created a working group of U.S. Attorneys to share best practices for charging abusers who keep their guns.
How We Fix This
As U.S. attorneys prosecute more gun crimes, they are catching domestic abusers in their net.
The NRA and Me
"These guys think they’re going to be on their roof with their AR-15 and thousands of rounds of ammo, shooting all of the zombies, the minorities, whoever."
"Every gun owner I know, we ache and mourn as a community if someone has perished or been injured by someone with a gun. It's a terrible thing."
Some of their proposals defy political and cultural expectations.
Gun Rights
Days after thousands of students across the country walked out in protest against gun violence, one teen activist was busy organizing another mass demonstration — this time in defense of firearms. Will Riley Will Riley, a senior at Carlsbad…
The Aftermath
Lane Murdock, a 16-year-old sophomore from Ridgefield, Connecticut, hasn’t slept much in the past two months. What’s kept her up at night, apart from studying for exams, is one all-consuming extracurricular: organizing a national protest against gun violence that has…
Monifa Akosua was 13 years old when she went to her first funeral for a friend who had been gunned down. Now, 27, Akosua says she’s been attending funerals for gunshot victims ever since, including one for her cousin, Fontino…
Women in America are shot to death by their current or former romantic partners with alarming regularity — once every 16 hours, as my colleague Jennifer Mascia has written. New research published today in the American Journal of Epidemiology offers…
Khalil Spencer on why he supports his local shooting club — and his area's gun violence prevention group.
Ralph Myers believes gun control failed to save his child.
