What To Know Today. NEW from THE TRACE: Hospital-based intervention can save lives. A growing movement is betting on Medicaid to fund it. The violence prevention model connects community outreach ...

Reporters moderated a virtual discussion with a Parkland survivor, the executive director of March For Our Lives, and ...

For our 10th anniversary, reporter Jennifer Mascia talks to editing fellow Tatyana Turner about how The Trace began — and the ...

In Nashville, a 19-year-old counterprotester pulled out a handgun while arguing with demonstrators at the Tennessee State ...

What we do know is that nearly 15 million firearms were produced for the U.S. market in 2023, according to figures reported to the ATF by gunmakers. That number can be used as a proxy for annual gun ...

For decades, politicians and gun lobbying organizations have perpetuated the notion that mental health issues drive mass violence. A new study is challenging that narrative, though, showing that, ...

OVW has funded programs to help survivors obtain court orders to temporarily remove guns from their abusers. But Jennifer Wagman, co-associate director of UCLA’s Center for Gender and Health Justice, ...

The Business of Guns. Gun Sales Are Plummeting. Here’s Why. A Trace analysis found that Americans purchased 6.5 million fewer guns last year than in 2020, when the pandemic pushed demand for firearms ...

Make a gift to The Trace to keep our reporting on gun violence going strong. Our team is examining a decade's worth of data from the Gun Violence Archive for insights into one of the most devastating ...

A U.S. Army combat tank, topped with a 37mm gun, squats permanently on the front lawn of American Legion Post 179, in Grandville, Michigan, a few miles southwest of Grand Rapids. Inside the corrugated ...

Former President Donald Trump has vowed to roll back a host of the Biden administration’s violence prevention efforts if he reenters the White House — and when it comes to gun policies he would pursue ...