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American Parents Are More Worried About School Safety Now Than After Sandy Hook

Nearly three times as many American parents fear for their child’s safety at school today than during the immediate aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, according to a poll released this week. A survey of public attitudes…

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In Big Reversal, Supporters of Regulating Bump Stocks Now Outnumber Opponents 3 to 1 in Comments to ATF

One expert characterized the findings of The Trace's analysis as “more evidence that gun regulation advocates are closing the participation gap.”

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Just How Many Guns Do Americans Own? (And Why Do Estimates Vary So Widely?)

There is no official count of how many guns Americans own. But the best available calculations make it clear that the number has grown by tens of millions in recent decades, leaving the United States ever more densely armed than…

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Suicides by Gun Have Steadily Climbed, Federal Data Shows

America’s suicide rate is rising, surging by nearly a third since the turn of the millennium. Within that public health crisis is an underlying problem: a jump in the number of people taking their own lives with firearms.

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Gun Violence Research Gets $50 Million Boost From Private Funders

In one swoop, a new $50 million initiative to boost funding for gun violence research is poised to eclipse the federal government’s meager efforts to understand the epidemic. Experts in the field say the fund, created by the Laura and…

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Chicago Criminals Are ‘Handshakes’ Away From Illegal Guns, Study Finds

Chicago has heralded much-welcome reductions in gun violence this year, but the city is still regularly convulsed by shootings, with some 50 people injured or killed by gunfire in the first week of May alone. Just how easy…

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Roughly 4.6 Million American Kids Live in Homes With Unlocked, Loaded Guns

A country where one in three households owns guns is a country where a lot of children grow up alongside deadly weapons. New calculations indicate just how many of those kids live in homes where adults fail to safely store…

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Parkland Generated Dramatically More News Coverage Than Most Mass Shootings

Survivors of the Florida massacre challenged the media to pay attention. Data shows how successful they were.

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New FBI Data Shows Active Shooters Caused Nearly 750 Casualties in 2017

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…

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New FBI Data Is In: Murder Rates in U.S. Cities, Ranked

The national murder rate increased by 29 percent last year as gun violence surged during the pandemic.

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More Shooting Victims Are Dying Before They Reach the Hospital. Researchers Think an Increasing ‘Intensity’ of Gun Violence May Be to Blame.

Gunshot victims are four times more likely to die before reaching a hospital than they were a decade ago, according to a new nationwide analysis from Johns Hopkins. The findings suggest that gunshot injuries may be growing more lethal.

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An American Crisis: 18 Facts About Gun Violence — and 6 Promising Ways to Reduce the Suffering

The United States suffers from a gun violence crisis, a problem exacerbated by misinformation and a lack of understanding of the epidemic’s dimensions and scale. Knowing the facts can be a first step toward advancing solutions and preventing some of…

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What Members of Congress Do — and Don’t — Say After Mass Shootings

An analysis of more than 800 official statements.

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The ATF Received 36,000 Comments on Bump Stocks. They’re Overwhelmingly Anti-Regulation.

In the week following the Las Vegas massacre on October 1, polls showed that nearly 75 percent of registered voters in gun-owning households supported a ban on bump stocks. Yet despite the public sentiment, an analysis by The…

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TSA Confiscated a Record Number of Guns From Travelers in 2017

The Transportation Security Administration, the federal agency that oversees security at American airports, confiscated 3,957 firearms from travelers’ carry-on bags in 2017, a record high, the agency reported this week. The figure represents a 17 percent increase from…