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The Trajectory
Harnessing the state’s red flag law, Suffolk County has become a leader in the use of extreme risk protection orders. Its process could be a model for police nationwide.
Bang for the Buck
The previously unreported material shows that a grand jury subpoenaed the gun group’s chief financial officer in 2021.
Community Violence
K.G. Wilson refused to let young victims of gun violence be forgotten. Then a tragedy he didn’t anticipate changed everything.
A new organization that’s representing Mexico in a lawsuit against American gun manufacturers and dealers hopes to accomplish just that.
Year in Review
Highlights from a year on the gun violence beat.
Philadelphia
Reporter Afea Tucker discusses a year of local community engagement, culminating in an anti-violence event focused on music.
In the final Trajectory of 2023, reporter Chip Brownlee takes stock of the most encouraging developments on our beat.
Extremism
Armed hate crimes, down since the Trump years, have increased since the conflict erupted in October.
The Gun Machine
In February 2008, reporter Alain Stephens's father took his own life with a firearm. In the final episode of The Gun Machine, Stephens meets with others who lost loved ones to guns — and tries to make sense of the senseless.
Research has shown the connections between the proliferation of firearms, officer safety, and police use of fatal force. But a new study looks at the flip side: whether certain gun laws could reduce the number of police shootings.