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Data
An interactive map of American gun violence.
Firearms have claimed 95 percent of the lives lost to terrorism in the United States over the last 14 years.
New research found that one hospital's gunshot wound patients were far more likely to die within five years.
Only 29 percent believe the group represents their views on universal background checks — while a majority of Republican gun owners are more likely to vote for candidates who do.
Culture
So far this academic year, at least 77 students — some as young as 4 years old — have been caught with firearms.
"They’ll ask about my family... about how I protect myself, details about my home."
Chicago
Last year, 88 percent of the guns recovered in Illinois were seized in Chicago. More than half of them came from out of state.
Breaking down polls by party affiliation shows how GOPers' increasingly conservative views on gun laws drive the national split on a critical question.
As the need for firearms data grows, David Hemenway and his team at the Injury Control Research Center find themselves pinching pennies.
The results of a major survey of firearms owners corroborate a hotly contested statistic.
Hiding in closets and under desks has become a become an intrinsic part of American school life.
Shunning the FBI’s widely used definition, the numbers circulated by the crowdsourced Mass Shooting Tracker show such attacks to be an almost daily phenomenon.
A forthcoming Harvard survey suggest that more Americans own a sizable stockpile of firearms than there are residents of Denmark.
Nearly 60 people were shot in the city last weekend, making this September markedly different from Septembers past.
Just last week, the agency broke its record for firearms confiscated in a seven day period.