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Data
California has among the strictest gun laws in the country. Some of its neighbors are another story.
Law
The family of a woman killed in the Las Vegas mass shooting of 2017 filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against 11 gun manufacturers and dealers, accusing the companies of intentionally producing or selling AR-15 rifles that can be easily modified to…
Mass Shooting
The use of semiautomatic handguns since 1990 has outpaced an already growing gun market.
Domestic Violence
When easy access to guns mixes with violent misogyny.
Extremism
After the Pittsburgh synagogue attack this past October, Northeastern University criminologist Jack McDeavitt told me he feared it might herald more hate-fueled mass shootings. Last weekend, his fears came true when a white supremacist opened fire on a…
In the past 20 years, 165 mass shootings have occurred, an analysis by The Trace and The New Yorker has found.
After the shooting, Frank DeAngelis made a vow to rebuild his school. Now he’s coaching administrators who have endured tragedies of their own.
Chicago
Illinois revokes thousands of gun licenses every year. But it’s rare for law enforcement to remove firearms from owners barred from having them.
Moments of selflessness, from Orlando to Thousand Oaks.
The shooter in Wednesday night’s Thousand Oaks nightclub mass shooting lived in a county where police have not often utilized the state’s “red flag” law, written to keep guns out of hands of dangerous people. According to the local…
Gun Policy
The state's efforts to ban the devices have been stymied in court, leaving plenty of them in circulation.
Another dozen people were injured in the chaos at the popular country music bar, which attracted students from nearby colleges.
In the wake of the Tree of Life attack, the City Council is trying to find its way around NRA-backed pre-emption statutes.
Why one criminologist thinks toxic online speech could motivate more white supremacists to plot gun rampages.
Analysis
Again. The attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday morning left 11 people dead and six others injured. The shooter was the latest armed with an AR-15, as well as three handguns,…
