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Data
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.
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.
For the first time in Gun Violence Archive’s 5-year history, it recorded a decline in fatal shootings.
Gun violence is felt unevenly across America. But no community is immune.
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…
Missing Pieces
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…
An investigation by The Trace shows that police departments’ uneven storage rules have put deadly weapons into the hands of criminals.
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…
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