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Bulletin
An update to our attempt to quantify the number of guns circulating in the U.S.
“Every conversation is about how we move forward.”
After the rapper was shot and killed in 2020, Chicago officials expressed more concern about gangs than its own emergency response.
There’s a complex history of interconnectedness.
In October, the Supreme Court appeared inclined to uphold the ATF’s ghost gun rule. But the new administration could render the case moot.
In 2020, President Donald Trump sent scores of federal agents to fight crime in the Midwest. An executive order issued after his return to the White House hints at what’s next.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s relationship to guns.
Who’s to say what happens next?
The case features a plaintiff that courts across the country have become familiar with.
An overview of some of the key points, and their contexts.
Tens of thousands of lives were forever altered.
Screening for risk of intimate partner violence could help stem the maternal homicide crisis.
“Even as things began to feel less grim last year,” writes local engagement reporter Afea Tucker, “we are still in the thick of a national gun violence crisis.”
The year is off to a rocky start. Statistics from 2024 put things into perspective.
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