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Politics
Mining recent voting data for an assessment of the gun lobby's current potency at turning out votes.
Armed With Reason
And contrary to the claims of its authors (one of whom is backed by the NRA), it does not prove that more guns equals less crime.
Data
The results of a major survey of firearms owners corroborate a hotly contested statistic.
Commentary
What is the National Rifle Association, if its leader no longer bothers to publicly address or try to redefine the mass shootings that shock the nation?
Law
Seeking a new route around the gun industry's legal immunity, a Missouri lawsuit targets a pawn shop's alleged recklessness.
City Limits
When Stevie Moore’s child was murdered in Memphis, he wanted revenge. Instead, he vowed to stop others from acting on that impulse.
Longform
It took a second for the gun to accidentally go off, weeks for Florida to pass a law to keep guns out of children’s hands, and a lifetime for Sean Smith to forgive himself.
Ghost Guns
A string of high-profile crimes involving untraceable firearms has authorities on edge. Says one federal agent: “We have no way of knowing what’s out there."
In Memoriam
Nardyne Jefferies is the unwitting pioneer of an ad-hoc movement to get lawmakers to confront the grisly consequences of gun violence.
Q & A
Shooters Shop sits just down the road from the notorious gun seller once known as Badger Guns. Here's how it avoids repeating its neighbor's offenses.