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Gun Policy
Raymond Fryberg is on trial for hiding his abusive past when buying the gun his son later used to kill four classmates at Marysville Pilchuck High School. The lack of a system for reporting tribal court records to NICS was another culprit.
Politics
A very close reading of "Donald J. Trump on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms"
Safe Storage
Since the start of the school year, more than two dozen kids have been caught bringing firearms to class. A sociologist helps to understand the phenomenon.
Q & A
'In movies you always die quickly from a gunshot wound. But not in real life.'
Even in an election cycle marked by hot-button antics, the group's positions and rhetoric are notably high-proof.
Domestic Violence
A state lauded for its lack of gun restrictions also has an ugly and often lethal history with domestic violence involving firearms.
City Limits
Accounts from the front lines of urban gun violence. This week: Stories from St. Louis, Missouri, where kids plan their funerals and families live in fear.
Americans a) support universal background checks and b) doubt that they work. How can both be true?
Active Shooting
As gunfire continues to hit cars on a busy stretch of Arizona highway, a look at the phenomenon of gun violence on America's roads.
Armed With Reason
The conclusion that greater access to guns results in more suicides is nearly unanimous.
