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Announcements
The Hub’s new tool launches with nine datasets.
The Business of Guns
A Trace analysis found that Americans purchased 6.5 million fewer guns last year than in 2020, when the pandemic pushed demand for firearms to record levels.
Chicago
A Trace analysis found that between Jan. 2021 and Nov. 2024, the rate of incidents with response times longer than six minutes grew by 4.6 percentage points.
A Decade of American Gun Violence
A Trace series challenges what many people might think about gun violence in America. Here are the highlights.
These are the methods we used to determine how many people might have lived if gun violence didn't spike during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a new analysis, The Trace figured out the number of people who might have lived if gun violence had remained at its 2019 level.
Data
As firearm sales have fallen, so have deaths and mass shootings. Trace reporter Chip Brownlee breaks down this year’s gun violence trends.
The Bruen Era
The Trace has compiled data on more than 1,600 challenges to gun laws since the landmark Bruen ruling in 2022 reshaped the right to bear arms.
A new analysis by The Trace identified cities across the country that are using ShotSpotter despite averaging fewer than one shooting a month in which someone was killed or injured.
Our calculations debunked the myth that big U.S. cities are violence-ridden.
The decreases are most pronounced in Democratic-led cities like those that the Trump campaign has painted as centers of violence.
A Trace analysis of federal data found that the amount of money going to gun violence studies has soared since lawmakers lifted a de facto federal funding ban.
A new Trace analysis examines the rate of fatalities in states where permitless carry was made law. Most saw shooting fatalities surge.
While overall gun deaths continued to decline from their post-pandemic peak, child gun deaths rose, and gun suicides hit a record high.
The drop in shootings during the holiday follows an overall downward trend since the start of 2024. Still, gunfire injured or killed 245 people over the long weekend.
