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Community Violence
With voters desperate to reduce shootings, three of the campaign’s black front-runners are embracing aggressive law enforcement tactics that could perpetuate racial disparities.
Gun Policy
What the commonwealth's reform package means for background checks, handgun limits, red flag orders, and more.
House and Senate appropriators struck an agreement that will inject $25 million into studying a problem long obscured by a dearth of government-backed research.
Election 2020
Activists have long fought to make the most common form of firearm homicides an urgent, shared priority. Is their message finally breaking through?
Some 2020 Democrats vow to enact gun reforms by bypassing congressional gridlock. But there are limits on how much a White House can do solo.
How We Fix This
Priorities in Congress have given short shrift to community gun violence, activists say.
Politics
The Disarm Hate Act adds misdemeanor hate crimes convictions to the list of background check criteria that prohibit firearm sales.
Universal background checks for gun purchases may be the most popular federal law that does not exist. Polls have shown that as much as 97 percent of the American public supports vetting every gun buyer for a history of…
National Rifle Association
Voters in several states have gone to the polls to approve new gun reforms. Now the NRA is backing bills to constrain the ballot initiative process.
We polled every campaign on an array of gun policies. Here’s what they said.
Bang for the Buck
The same media consultant purchased ads for the NRA and for Senate candidates in the Missouri, Montana, and North Carolina races.
The confessed Russian agent told an Israeli audience in 2013 that her gun rights group had a deal with the NRA.
Election 2016
She has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Plus: Mother Jones and The Trace uncovered more photos of Maria Butina’s boss with NRA leaders — including at an NRA fundraiser.
Following reporting by The Trace, the Campaign Legal Center and Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence filed a complaint on Friday with the Federal Election Commission calling for an investigation into the National Rifle Association’s apparently illegal coordination with…