New FBI Data Is In: Murder Rates in U.S. Cities, Ranked - The Trace
2018年4月26日 · In many cities, the 2020 spike was even more dramatic. The murder rate increased by 98 percent in Milwaukee, 75 percent in Cleveland, and 52 percent in Memphis, with each city recording its highest level since at least 1990.
Gun Violence by the Numbers in 2023 - The Trace
2023年12月31日 · The United States may have moved past the devastating surge of gun violence sparked by the pandemic, with preliminary data suggesting that homicides in 2023 declined by a record amount. Gun injuries have also dropped, and a growing list of states now have tighter laws on gun sales, which are at a four-year low. Still, […]
How a Federal Gun Background Check Works - The Trace
2015年7月11日 · In the United States, anybody who wants to buy a gun from a federally licensed firearms dealer (FFL) is subject to a background check. Since 1998, when the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, went online, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has processed more than 320 million of them.. The overwhelming majority of gun background checks take just minutes to clear the ...
Auto Sears: The Return of the Machine Gun - The Trace
2022年3月24日 · Olga Pierce. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the federal agency responsible for policing guns in the U.S., said it seized 1,500 weapons modified with auto sears in 2021, a staggering increase over 2020, when only 300 were recovered.
Gun Violence in 2022, By the Numbers - The Trace
2022年12月30日 · The number of gun deaths excluding suicides in 2022 declined slightly compared to 2021, a year that saw the most gun deaths on record. This total, tracked by the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive since 2014, includes murders, accidental shootings, and other homicides that law enforcement deemed legally justified.
How High Are U.S. Gun Violence Rates, Compared to Other …
2021年10月5日 · According to the researchers, an extraordinarily high rate of gun ownership in the U.S. has contributed to the prevalence of violence here. To compare countries’ gun ownership rates, researchers in the original study assigned each nation a score based on figures from the Small Arms Survey, the country’s ratio of firearm suicides to all suicides (a common proxy for firearm availability ...
A Psychiatrist Debunks the Biggest Myths of Gun Suicides
2015年11月2日 · According to Liza Gold, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and editor of the forthcoming Gun Violence and Mental Illness, a lack of information about gun suicides makes preventing them increasingly difficult for mental health professionals.In a conversation with The Trace, Gold spoke about the biggest myths about firearm suicides, and why there ...
I Shot Myself in the Head and Survived - The Trace
2016年9月13日 · Projects & Investigations. The Industry The role of the gun industry in America’s gun violence epidemic. A Decade of American Gun Violence Our team is examining a decade's worth of data from the Gun Violence Archive for insights into one of the most devastating public health crises in the United States.
Reporting on Guns and Gun Violence in America - The Trace
The Bruen Era. A Supreme Court Decision Claimed to Take Partisanship Out of Gun Cases. It Didn’t. A Trace analysis of more than 1,600 rulings found that the Bruen decision has given judges remarkable leeway. The results have been starkly partisan.
The Simple Physics That Makes Some Bullets Deadlier Than Others …
2017年6月21日 · The bullet that struck U.S. Representative Steve Scalise last week was traveling at somewhere between 1,100 and 2,600 feet per second. The projectile, a 7.62 x 39 bullet, hit the House majority whip with between 370 and 1,550 foot-pounds of force.