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As it invests in community-based efforts to reduce gun violence, the Louisiana city is taking on the evidence challenge.
The Biden administration expanded the definition of firearms to include unfinished gun parts, which can be assembled to create “ghost guns.” A district judge ruled it unconstitutional last year.
The historically gun-friendly state will now require background checks on private arms sales.
Tomorrow marks 25 years since the mass shooting at Columbine High School. On April 20, 1999, the nation was paralyzed as broadcasters captured the scene: kids escaping through windows and carried out on stretchers. All told, two students murdered 12…
“Operation Safe Summer” is supposed to keep minors out of harm’s way amid a surge in shootings. Residents are skeptical.
Between 2022 and 2023, Buffalo, New York, experienced an “unheard of” decrease in killings. But how?
Some departments use the law rarely, if at all.
Last fall, after it was clear that the city was experiencing a dramatic decline in shootings, community leaders and public health officials said they were determined to get the numbers down further.
Active-shooter drills. Threats of political violence. Guns everywhere. This is America, 25 years after Columbine.
Lawmakers approved a number of firearm measures, but one high-profile proposal didn’t make it to the governor’s desk.
The Crumbley parents were each convicted, by separate juries, on four counts of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting deaths of four students their son killed.
The bill would make it easier for family members to petition a court directly to remove someone’s guns.
It’s the first such in-depth analysis in more than two decades.
Piles of research show that owning a gun makes you less, not more, safe, but it’s been hard to convince Americans of that. Could a public messaging campaign help?
Voters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two protesters in 2020, ousted five incumbents who were part of a GOP-aligned majority on the county board.