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Culture
Guns have been the leading cause of death among young Americans since 2021. Yet the local temples of Shriners — an organization that supports pediatric hospitals — continue to host gun raffles, revealing the ubiquity and disconnect over firearms in America.
Gun Policy
Wyoming has the highest rate of gun suicide in the country. Lawmakers there, and in similarly afflicted states, have blocked red flag laws, which studies have found to be a useful preventative measure.
Gun Rights
Over 18 months, Dylan Russell bought 15 guns in Vermont. His case exposes how firearms have become currency in the opioid trade.
Domestic Violence
The National Rifle Association once supported red flag gun laws, which are meant to protect people like Dawn Williams-Stewart, a staffer who was shot and killed by her husband.
Ghost Guns
Dale Sutherland once worked to get firearms off the streets of D.C. Now he helms a dark money operation for the gun rights groups that brought the suit over homemade firearms.
Laws meant to keep firearms away from unstable people are under attack by Second Amendment radicals. An investigation by The Trace and Rolling Stone exposes the ugly campaign to undermine a bipartisan compromise to stop mass shootings.
How did an undercover cop-turned-evangelical pastor become the middleman for a dark-money scheme to take down the country's firearm regulations?
The devices were banned after the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas. The SCOTUS decision puts them back in civilian hands.
Ask The Trace
Gun rights advocates often point to low rates of shootings in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont to argue that you don’t need strong gun laws to keep violence in check. Here’s what the data actually reveals.
The Industry
White men like Bob Owens are the firearms industry’s most essential customers. But they keep turning their weapons on themselves.
Bulletin
“When you lose resources, you lose members, and when you lose members, you lose resources.”
The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s unsupported evidence about the number of high-capacity magazines in the U.S. has been introduced in cases that could have major implications for gun restrictions nationwide.
Concealed Carry
A bold move to curtail gun violence in Albuquerque has gotten a lot of attention, but less controversial solutions hold more promise.
Bang for the Buck
No stranger to legal disputes, the National Rifle Association is still fighting with Ackerman McQueen.
Though federal legislation to strengthen requirements hasn’t passed, many individual states have plugged some of the gaps.
