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Armslist is one of the easiest ways to buy a gun online — especially if you’re not supposed to have one.
Community Violence
A bullet wound in Queens is more likely to be fatal than anywhere else in the city. A single trauma center serves the borough’s southern reaches, and it’s struggling to keep up.
Data
The agency is now hiding its most unreliable numbers from the public.
Five Democratic senators sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Friday, pressing the agency about issues with the nonfatal firearm injury estimates published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s the…
Ghost Guns
Three weeks after The Trace reported that Twitter users were freely distributing design files for 3D-printed guns, the social media platform rolled out a new policy prohibiting the practice. The rule change is part of a wide-ranging update…
The platforms say they don’t allow users to post blueprints or how-tos for building ghost guns. But the files continue to circulate.
This story was published in partnership with FiveThirtyEight. Eleven senators have sent a letter to the head of the Department of Health and Human Services, demanding answers to a series of questions about the Centers for Disease Control…
“You just can’t use those numbers,” said one of the nation’s leading public health researchers, after viewing the agency’s most recent figures.
The likelihood that police will solve homicides and assaults has plummeted — particularly when the culprit uses a gun, and particularly when the victims are black or Hispanic.
Free to Shoot Again
A shocking number of shootings go unsolved. In some police departments, hundreds of cases aren't investigated at all. A joint investigation by The Trace and BuzzFeed News.
Gun Policy
President Obama sought to stiffen enforcement of a federal rule that says frequent gun dealers need government authorization. Data show the crackdown never materialized.
Mass Shooting
The shooter in Wednesday night’s Thousand Oaks nightclub mass shooting lived in a county where police have not often utilized the state’s “red flag” law, written to keep guns out of hands of dangerous people. According to the local…
Tapped out by its battles over lead-tainted water, the Michigan city is grappling with another public health crisis: It’s losing kids to guns at nearly twice the rate of Chicago and Detroit.
The agency has more confidence in its estimates of BB gun injuries.
Active Shooting
More Americans were killed or wounded by active shooters in 2017 than in any year since the Federal Bureau of Investigation began keeping track. All told, nearly 750 people were shot in 30 incidents, according to a newly…