The Trace

1 min read 2021-11-23 18:00:00

‘Outrageous’: California Lawmakers Slam Police for Failing to Use Gun Database

Several California lawmakers have vowed to act after an investigation by The Trace and NBC Bay Area found widespread problems with how police and

1 min read 2021-11-22 17:00:00

Six years ago, an internal report commissioned by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued a dire warning: The agency needed to

1 min read 2021-11-19 18:00:00

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is revisiting its decision to license the successor to Jimenez Arms, a notorious Nevada-based

1 min read 2021-11-12 18:00:00

Law enforcement agencies across California are failing to correctly log guns in a state firearms database, preventing thousands of weapons from being

1 min read 2021-11-08 18:00:00

There’s not a single person on SAVE Harlem’s staff who hasn’t lost a friend or loved one to gun violence. As one of the group’s violence

1 min read 2021-11-03 21:58:55

The NRA Foundation has paid an attorney and Second Amendment activist to write favorable briefs in Supreme Court cases, suggests a hacked document

1 min read 2021-11-01 17:00:00

When a shooting that injured four children ripped through an East Baltimore neighborhood in September, Mayor Brandon Scott took to social media.

1 min read 2021-10-29 17:00:00

People don’t generally want to be blocked from buying a gun by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS. Every year, the

1 min read 2021-10-26 16:00:00

For the last decade, the Mexican government has been locked in a brutal war with the country’s drug cartels. The conflict has claimed tens of

1 min read 2021-10-21 23:07:53

On the night of Saturday, October 16, police in Tarpon Springs, Florida, received a call about a man pointing an AK-style rifle at passing cars.

1 min read 2021-10-20 16:00:00

America has more guns than any other country — and its residents keep buying them, with sales hitting record highs in 2020. But how many guns

1 min read 2021-10-18 18:00:00

Ray Kelly worried that the sound system wasn’t going to work. If the speakers failed, he was less likely to draw people to the park to build

1 min read 2021-10-15 16:00:00

From his desk, Ryan Busse could hear his boss ranting that the country’s largest gun manufacturer, Smith & Wesson, had betrayed its peers in

1 min read 2021-10-12 17:00:00

When Eric Adams was running for mayor in New York City’s Democratic primary, voters came to know him as the police candidate. After all, he had

1 min read 2021-10-08 16:00:00

In late July 2020, as Louisville, Kentucky, fumed in the wake of Breonna Taylor’s killing in a botched police raid, a militia group descended on