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The Trace’s Chip Brownlee and Jennifer Mascia report that New Jersey is likely just the first domino.

In the summertime, when shootings often spike, it can be difficult to see gun violence as anything but an intractable problem. Tragedies consistently make headlines, while tragedies avoided rarely do. But look a little closer, and the picture looks better than it might on the surface. According to an analysis by The Trace’s Gun Violence […]

Advocacy groups, industry experts, and Hollywood professionals are voicing concerns about the proposed measures targeting ghost guns.

A social media campaign challenging the idea that guns make kids more safe appears to be breaking through.

There’s no easy explanation for why violence drops.

In his latest story, staff writer Chip Brownlee explains what that means.

The FBI’s 2025 crime report shows an unprecedented drop in the murder rate. But shootings still affect thousands and thousands of Americans each year.

On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor, a far-right judge based in Texas, once again issued a decision blocking enforcement of the ATF’s ghost gun rule, which allows federal authorities to regulate the sale of kits and parts used to assemble the weapons. His injunction is narrow; it applies to the plaintiffs — Defense […]

What happens after a city starts to get gun violence under control? From 2022 to 2025, shootings in Lansing, Michigan, fell 38 percent, while fatal shootings declined 46 percent. But that progress has arrived at an uncertain moment for community groups doing violence prevention and intervention work there. As federal grants have expired, Advance Peace’s […]

A tiny number of ZIP codes are the hardest-hit.