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The Trajectory
The office’s potential will depend upon how much authority it’s given.
For Senator Raphael Warnock, voting rights protections and gun reform “are part and parcel of the same project.”
Politics
The Newtown parents who waded into the gun control debate in 2012 have been a key political force ever since.
A new survey finds that support for strengthening gun laws and protecting the Second Amendment aren’t mutually exclusive.
As Congress works out a potential package of gun reforms, we separate rhetoric from reality.
ATF
The agency tasked with enforcing federal gun laws hasn’t had a permanent director for 8 of the last 10 years.
Concealed Carry
The updated national concealed carry reciprocity measure, revised to accommodate the growing permitless carry movement, ties in with the NRA's top legislative priority.
The Knowledge Gap
The agency faces the same obstacles as the CDC, but has funded two substantial gun violence studies since the Sandy Hook massacre.
Q & A
Left for dead in the 1978 Jonestown massacre, the California congresswoman revisits the episode that sparked her career-long crusade for gun reform.
Plus other new arguments and ideas of note as coverage of the Oregon college shooting progresses.