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Alex Yablon was a reporter and a founding staffer at The Trace.
Politics
Emerging from the Internet's shadows amid the roiling Republican nomination race, a movement embraces firearms for their power to upset.
Open Carry
But he never expected that the Secret Service would be forced to respond.
Data
The rate at which women are buying firearms has remained mostly unchanged for decades.
National Rifle Association
When it comes to judicial nominations, the gun group’s punishments are inconsistent.
The Business of Guns
Even as .380 handguns have become the height of marketability, questions loom about their usefulness and safety.
Water4Patriots echoes the gun group's anti-government pitch.
A dealer in Arkansas gets audited, and national totals for lost or stolen firearms start to seem suspiciously low.
Background Checks
February was the third busiest month on record for the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Gun Policy
Cedric Ford was a convicted felon who was served a protective order 90 minutes before he began his rampage.
Q & A
Ernst Mauch talks with The Trace about the future of high-tech firearms.
More than 25 states have statutes for allowing some criminals to own firearms again.
It marks the government’s first high profile case against an unlicensed gun seller since President Barack Obama's executive actions.
Election 2016
For the gun group, more legislative allies than foes face highly competitive reelection fights.
The idea to expand background checks by clarifying the “engaged in the business” rule for private sellers was in development for most of the president’s second term. Did its release come too late?
Bureau insiders dissect the downsides to the president’s action on private dealers who should be running background checks.
