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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.
Mass Shooting
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.
Extremism
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,…
A new study of newspapers’ coverage of school shootings finds that images of suspects outnumber images of victims 16 to 1.
Active Shooting
Nine back-to-school stories from the age of the bulletproof backpack.
The Marine Corps veteran accused of killing 12 people at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, used a 45.-caliber Glock handgun equipped with an extended magazine. Investigators said the man legally purchased the semiautomatic weapon from…
A gunman opened fire during a video game tournament at a mall in Jacksonville, Florida, killing two and wounding nine others.
The Las Vegas Police Department on Friday concluded its investigation into the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival, which claimed the lives of 58 people and left more than 800 injured. The final report produced…
A gunman opened fire at the Capital Gazette newspaper offices in Annapolis, Maryland, on Thursday afternoon, killing five people and leaving several others wounded. A suspect is in custody. Authorities said the first shots rang out at the newspaper’s offices…
Tuesday was always going to be a day of mourning as Floridians marked the two-year anniversary of the mass shooting that claimed 49 lives at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It was made even more somber when the city…