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How One Hospital Dramatically Skewed the CDC’s Estimate of Nonfatal Gun Injuries

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How One Hospital Dramatically Skewed the CDC’s Estimate of Nonfatal Gun Injuries

The agency is now hiding its most unreliable numbers from the public.

Sean Campbell and Daniel Nass
Garlic Festival Shooting Highlights a Common Pattern: Guns From Nevada, Used to Kill in California

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Garlic Festival Shooting Highlights a Common Pattern: Guns From Nevada, Used to Kill in California

California has among the strictest gun laws in the country. Some of its neighbors are another story.

Alain Stephens and Daniel Nass
CDC’s Explanation of Inaccurate Gun Injury Data ‘Falls Short,’ Senators Say

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CDC’s Explanation of Inaccurate Gun Injury Data ‘Falls Short,’ Senators Say

Five Democratic senators sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Friday, pressing the agency about issues with the nonfatal firearm injury estimates published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s the…

Daniel Nass and Sean Campbell
Two Decades After Columbine, Doctors Reflect on the Horrors of Mass Shootings

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Two Decades After Columbine, Doctors Reflect on the Horrors of Mass Shootings

In the past 20 years, 165 mass shootings have occurred, an analysis by The Trace and The New Yorker has found.

Daniel Nass
Senators Demand Answers on CDC’s Unreliable Gun Injury Data

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Senators Demand Answers on CDC’s Unreliable Gun Injury Data

This story was published in partnership with FiveThirtyEight. Eleven senators have sent a letter to the head of the Department of Health and Human Services, demanding answers to a series of questions about the Centers for Disease Control…

Sean Campbell and Daniel Nass
The CDC’s Gun Injury Data Is Becoming Even More Unreliable

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The CDC’s Gun Injury Data Is Becoming Even More Unreliable

“You just can’t use those numbers,” said one of the nation’s leading public health researchers, after viewing the agency’s most recent figures.

Sean Campbell and Daniel Nass
5 Things to Know About Cities’ Failure to Arrest Shooters

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5 Things to Know About Cities’ Failure to Arrest Shooters

The likelihood that police will solve homicides and assaults has plummeted — particularly when the culprit uses a gun, and particularly when the victims are black or Hispanic.

Sean Campbell, Sarah Ryley for the New York Daily News, and Jeremy Singer-Vine
Gun Deaths Dropped in 2018, Excluding Suicides

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Gun Deaths Dropped in 2018, Excluding Suicides

For the first time in Gun Violence Archive’s 5-year history, it recorded a decline in fatal shootings.

Jennifer Mascia
We Mapped 150,000 Shootings. Here’s What We Found.

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We Mapped 150,000 Shootings. Here’s What We Found.

Gun violence is felt unevenly across America. But no community is immune.

Daniel Nass
An Atlas of American Gun Violence

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An Atlas of American Gun Violence

Six years. 190,000 shootings. How has gun violence marked your corner of the country?

Daniel Nass
U.S. Gun Death Rate Hit 20-Year High in 2017, CDC Data Shows

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U.S. Gun Death Rate Hit 20-Year High in 2017, CDC Data Shows

Nearly 40,000 people were killed by guns in the United States in 2017, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The total brings the country’s gun death rate to its highest point in more…

Alex Yablon
Spurred by The Trace’s Reporting, Atlanta Stiffens Punishment for Cops Who Leave Their Guns Unattended

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Spurred by The Trace’s Reporting, Atlanta Stiffens Punishment for Cops Who Leave Their Guns Unattended

After being contacted by The Trace’s reporters, the Atlanta Police Department clamped down on officers whose behavior contributed to the loss or theft of a department-issued firearm. Under a new policy adopted this month, officers who violate the department’s rules…

Brian Freskos
Law Enforcement’s Lost and Stolen Gun Problem

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Law Enforcement’s Lost and Stolen Gun Problem

An investigation by The Trace shows that police departments’ uneven storage rules have put deadly weapons into the hands of criminals.

Brian Freskos and Marsha McLeod
Most Californians Who Own ‘Assault Rifles’ Have 10+ Guns

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Most Californians Who Own ‘Assault Rifles’ Have 10+ Guns

The AR-15 has been called “America’s rifle,” a weapon emblematic of our national gun culture. But a new survey finds that in the country’s most populous state, a small contingent of hardcore collectors own the vast majority of…

Alex Yablon
Do Gun Laws Affect the Rate of Shooting Deaths?

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Do Gun Laws Affect the Rate of Shooting Deaths?

The answer’s complicated.

Miles Kohrman and Daniel Nass

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How One Hospital Dramatically Skewed the CDC’s Estimate of Nonfatal Gun Injuries

Garlic Festival Shooting Highlights a Common Pattern: Guns From Nevada, Used to Kill in California

CDC’s Explanation of Inaccurate Gun Injury Data ‘Falls Short,’ Senators Say

Two Decades After Columbine, Doctors Reflect on the Horrors of Mass Shootings

Senators Demand Answers on CDC’s Unreliable Gun Injury Data

The CDC’s Gun Injury Data Is Becoming Even More Unreliable

5 Things to Know About Cities’ Failure to Arrest Shooters

Gun Deaths Dropped in 2018, Excluding Suicides

We Mapped 150,000 Shootings. Here’s What We Found.

An Atlas of American Gun Violence

U.S. Gun Death Rate Hit 20-Year High in 2017, CDC Data Shows

Spurred by The Trace’s Reporting, Atlanta Stiffens Punishment for Cops Who Leave Their Guns Unattended

Law Enforcement’s Lost and Stolen Gun Problem

Most Californians Who Own ‘Assault Rifles’ Have 10+ Guns

Do Gun Laws Affect the Rate of Shooting Deaths?