With 274 homicides, 2023 was the deadliest year in Washington, D.C., in more than two decades.

October’s mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, was one of more than a dozen high-profile attacks carried out by people who retained their gun rights after hospitalization during a mental health crisis.

A lower court split over bump stocks—a device that enabled the deadliest mass shooting in American history—is sending fresh cases steaming toward the high court.

How the gun became a cultural icon—and unmade America

We do have reason to fear what comes next. But what’s happening right now is concerning enough.

What explains the rise of noise complaints and get-off-my-lawn violence in America? Research points to one intriguing possibility.

9/11 was supposed to usher in an era of catastrophic jihadist attacks. Instead, we’re living in fear of a different kind of mass violence.

Take 330 million people, 400 million guns, and a media that induces paranoia and glorifies gun violence, and, well, what do you expect?

The bodies pile up. Republicans say it’s in God’s hands. And the new weapons coming to market are even deadlier. There’s only one logical conclusion.

The GOP is deluding its base with a false and ahistorical version of our Founders’ intentions, and it’s up to responsible gun owners to speak up.

There are more unregistered guns in this country than are possessed by the Pentagon, DHS, and police departments combined. And Republicans want more of them.

Gun violence in America is so bad that victims are suffering from multiple mass shootings.

As gun violence and political intimidation increasingly push into the public square, our polling places loom as vulnerable targets.

The white Highland Park shooter was ruined by weed and women. But the Black victim of police violence in Akron? Well, he must have been dangerous.

The famed and troubled Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives hasn’t had a head since 2015. It may now get one—but only because he’s taken so few stands in order to get confirmed.

Built-in dysfunction is the only reason the vast majority of Americans cannot exert their will to limit the everyday carnage of mass shootings.

Advocates say there is more momentum than ever before. But nothing is guaranteed.

It’s not a mystery why the United States has a unique problem with mass shootings.

We’ve just become fatalistic about the possibility of politicians doing anything to stop them.

The Trump presidency has been a literal call to arms for excitable whites who view nonwhite people as inherent threats.