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 the span of two months, more than 120 towns, cities, and counties in Virginia have declared themselves “Second Amendment sanctuaries” where “unconstitutional” gun laws would not be enforced. The ...

Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, 36, of Florida, was arrested at a Washington, D.C., hotel on January 4, 2021, for burning a Black Lives Matter flag he stole from a Black church last month. Metropolitan Police ...

The statistics are bleak. Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in America. From ages 10 to 34, it is the second leading cause, claiming more lives than homicide or heart disease. In 2017, the ...

The Black and Brown Collective was founded in 2022 by Dr. Shani Buggs, a professor at the Violence Prevention Research Program at UC Davis, third from right. The collective supports around 30 Black ...

Champe Barton and Daniel Nass The mass shootings have disproportionately occurred in predominantly Black neighborhoods. Nearly 50 percent of the shootings analyzed by The Trace took place in ...

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 ...

The NRA Foundation has paid an attorney and Second Amendment activist to write favorable briefs in Supreme Court cases, suggests a hacked document released on the dark web last week. Since 2019, that ...

Champe Barton is a reporter at The Trace covering the gun industry. His work has focused on the role of gun distribution in America’s gun violence epidemic, including lax enforcement of federal ...

At 27, Valerie Martinez had never known a life without fear. Her earliest memories were of hiding from her father in the tiny space between her daybed and the wall when he came home drunk and volatile ...

The 2024 presidential candidates couldn’t be further apart on gun policy. Vice President Kamala Harris has called for universal background checks and an assault weapons ban, while former President ...