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Politics
A new survey finds that support for strengthening gun laws and protecting the Second Amendment aren’t mutually exclusive.
Data
Decades of data on statewide gun ownership and violence show sales spiked during the pandemic, and again after the mass shooting in Uvalde.
The NRA and Me
Khalil Spencer on why he supports his local shooting club — and his area's gun violence prevention group.
Ralph Myers believes gun control failed to save his child.
"I have 30 emails from Wayne LaPierre that I never asked for."
Even as firearms owners and non-owners largely support the same policies, new research finds a widening divide in presidential candidate preferences.
Gun Theft
New research indicates that people who routinely carry guns outside the home are at least three times as likely to have one stolen.
A new Stanford study tapped a massive database to show how shootings strain hospitals and taxpayers.
The facts and figures that informed our reporting this year.
Suicide
In New Hampshire, twice as many people take their own lives than in Massachusetts.