Lawmakers toughened penalties after a Trace analysis revealed that the state led the country in gun violence on the road.

Chicago Watch How Chicago Gets Flooded with Thousands of Crime Guns Last year, 88 percent of the guns recovered in Illinois were seized in Chicago. More than half of them came from out of state.

Extremism A Running List of Gun Arrests Tied to the U.S. Capitol Attack Civilians didn't open fire on January 6, but that doesn’t mean the Trump supporters who congregated at the Capitol weren’t armed ...

In early February, the City Council of San Jose, California, approved a first-of-its-kind ordinance requiring gun owners to carry liability insurance. One of our readers wrote to us around the same ...

Coronavirus & Guns Will a Gun Keep Your Family Safe? Here’s What the Evidence Says The pandemic has inspired a surge in gun sales, but research shows that having a firearm in the house won’t ...

On Thursday, a panel of the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a New York state “public nuisance” law that requires gun companies to carefully monitor the distribution and marketing of their ...

The Politics of Post-Tragedy Conspiracies For people in power, conspiracy can be useful in the wake of disaster.

Chicago A Promising Violence Prevention Program in Chicago Faces a Massive Budget Setback READI addresses shootings by tackling joblessness, but without public funding, its future is in doubt.

Different Types of Gun Violence Contribute to Bloodshed on Independence Day The trend of more shootings during the Fourth of July weekend is changing. How are various firings contributing to this ...

Coronavirus & Guns Mass Shootings Are Soaring, With Black Neighborhoods Hit Hardest 2020 is on pace to have the most mass shootings since the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive started tracking them. In ...

Criminal Justice A Powerful Database Helps Solve Gun Crimes. Only Two States Require Police to Use It. New Jersey and Delaware have laws mandating that investigators use an innovative ballistics ...