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What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: Do not scapegoat young people for the increase in gun violence. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and New York Mayor Eric Adams are among the political leaders who have enacted or called for…
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: Young people dream up a safer summer in Chicago. Recently, Mayor Lori Lightfoot controversially updated the city’s curfew policies to restrict youth public gatherings as a means of violence prevention. But what…
What To Know Today More permissive concealed carry laws led to higher gun crime, study finds. Researchers John Donohue, Samuel Cai, and Matthew Bondy of Stanford Law School and Philip Cook of Duke University looked at data from 47 big…
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: After a grim year of shootings, Philadelphians want action. Residents are fed up with the feeling that they might not be safe outside their homes — and by what many see as…
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: SCOTUS strikes down New York gun permit law. In a 6-3 ruling, the court struck down the state’s law requiring applicants to demonstrate a special need to obtain…
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: Brooklyn’s alternative approach to gun violence shows promise. Brooklyn, New York’s most populous borough, has addressed the pandemic-era surge in gun violence with a strategy that would have once been a nonstarter:…
What To Know Today There’s now a Senate gun reform bill. After more than a week of negotiations, a bipartisan group of senators — including Democrats Chris Murphy and Kyrsten Sinema and Republicans John Cornyn and Thom Tillis — announced…
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: Is NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ crime reduction strategy ignoring lessons of the past? Even with the city far safer than it was in the 1990s and early 2000s, critics say the mayor…
What To Know Today Senate gun reform negotiations continue — slowly. It’s increasingly unlikely that the Senate will vote on a gun bill before the July 4 holiday, Chip Brownlee reports as part of his continuing coverage of the…
What To Know Today The latest on the congressional gun reform negotiations. Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas told CNN that two measures are holding senators back from reaching a deal before the July 4 holiday:…
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: A deep dive into background checks. In another dispatch on the Senate gun framework, Chip Brownlee provides some additional context on one of the key provisions: What would the deal mean for…
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: What you need to know about Congressional gun reform negotiations. Yesterday, we wrote about some of the key points of the framework agreement a bipartisan group of senators…
What To Know Today Bipartisan group announces framework agreement on gun reform. Democrat Chris Murphy and Republican John Cornyn led a group of 20 senators (10 Democrats and 10 Republicans) that announced the deal on Sunday.
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: What can the ATF do about converted machine guns? On April 11, more than 40 members of Congress signed a letter urging the ATF to take action on…
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: New York banned body armor. But not the kind used by the Buffalo shooter. The policy — part of a package of reforms signed on June 6 — came three weeks after…
