How Would an Assault Weapons Buyback Actually Work?
How many weapons would the government need to buy? How much would it cost? Why is this so hard to figure out?
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The Facts on Children and Teens Killed by Guns
Firearm injuries are a leading cause of death for American kids. Black youth face the worst violence.
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.
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.
CDC’s Explanation of Inaccurate Gun Injury Data ‘Falls Short,’ Senators Say
In a new letter, Senator Menendez and his colleagues keep pressing the agency over its flawed firearm injury estimates.
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.
Senators Demand Answers on CDC’s Unreliable Gun Injury Data
Following a Trace and FiveThirtyEight investigation, eleven senators sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services probing the CDC's faulty data.
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.
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.
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.
We Mapped 150,000 Shootings. Here’s What We Found.
Gun violence is felt unevenly across America. But no community is immune.
An Atlas of American Gun Violence
Six years. 190,000 shootings. How has gun violence marked your corner of the country?