crime guns

What Is Microstamping, and Can It Help Solve Shootings?

Ask The Trace

What Is Microstamping, and Can It Help Solve Shootings?

Laws to expand the technology's use have passed in three states and the District of Columbia. But some are questioning its effectiveness.

Chip Brownlee
GOP Budget Rider Could Cripple Efforts to Keep U.S. Guns Out of Mexico

ATF

GOP Budget Rider Could Cripple Efforts to Keep U.S. Guns Out of Mexico

Republicans in the House are making another run at gutting an ATF rule requiring border-state dealers to report suspect rifle sales.

Alex Yablon
Chicago’s Most Popular Crime Guns: The Raw Data

Chicago

Chicago’s Most Popular Crime Guns: The Raw Data

In a follow up to our ranking of the top 20 crime guns used in Chicago, here is an itemized list — including the make, model, and caliber — of the 4,505 firearms connected to crimes in the city in 2014.

Team Trace
Chicago Criminals’ Favorite Gunmakers: A Visual Ranking

Chicago

Chicago Criminals’ Favorite Gunmakers: A Visual Ranking

Police data reveals that drug money is helping the city’s gang members buy more firepower, while decades-old ‘Saturday Night Specials’ continue to claim victims.

Sarah Kollmorgen
Watch How Chicago Gets Flooded with Thousands of Crime Guns

Chicago

Watch How Chicago Gets Flooded with Thousands of Crime Guns

Last year, 88 percent of the guns recovered in Illinois were seized in Chicago. More than half of them came from out of state.

Mike Spies and Emily Fuhrman
Inside San Francisco’s Last Gun Shop

Culture

Inside San Francisco’s Last Gun Shop

The city is considering tougher regulations for firearms dealers, but there is only one left: High Bridge Arms.

Mike Spies
Fresh Court Challenges to Gun Sellers Undercut by Decade-Old Law

Gun Policy

Fresh Court Challenges to Gun Sellers Undercut by Decade-Old Law

Why there's no such thing as a negligent gun store, no matter the facts of the case.

Jeremy Borden