The ATF, charged with policing the gun industry, lets dealers get away with falsifying records and selling firearms without background checks.
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Data
While overall fatalities remained relatively unchanged compared to 2017, the share of suicides increased.
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The count, which excludes suicides, topped 15,000. Plus: Search our updated map to find incidents of gun violence near you.
These are the numbers that advanced our understanding of the issue this year.
This year, the gun group’s PAC has pulled in its biggest haul since 2013. However, a growing number of donors list themselves as retired.
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Community Violence
A bullet wound in Queens is more likely to be fatal than anywhere else in the city. A single trauma center serves the borough’s southern reaches, and it’s struggling to keep up.
How many weapons would the government need to buy? How much would it cost? Why is this so hard to figure out?
Firearm injuries are a leading cause of death for American kids. Black youth face the worst violence.
The agency is now hiding its most unreliable numbers from the public.
California has among the strictest gun laws in the country. Some of its neighbors are another story.
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…
In the past 20 years, 165 mass shootings have occurred, an analysis by The Trace and The New Yorker has found.
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…
“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.
