Our staff writer @bychipbrownlee.com writes an excellent newsletter about potential solutions to gun violence. Today's installment covers a new effort to bring together opposing sides of the gun debate to draft model legislation:

Maduro hasn’t set foot in the United States in decades. How can he be charged with violating an American gun law? My colleague @jenmascia.bsky.social spoke to legal experts who broke down the charges. www.thetrace.org/2026/01/madu...

Including yesterday's shooting of two people in Portland, The Trace has identified 44 incidents of use of force by federal immigration agents since January 2025. That includes 16 shootings, 4 of which were fatal. Seven other people have been wounded. www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...

Passing gun laws is only step one. Michigan’s new task force report focuses on the harder question: what it takes to implement them statewide. My last 2025 story for @thetrace.org

A new era: More young people have lived through more than one mass shooting. Terrific reporting by @almabeauvais.bsky.social www.thetrace.org/2025/12/mult...

ChatGPT has a long way to go. www.thetrace.org/2025/12/scho...

If you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health, wait until you see what guns do.

School swatting incidents have accelerated in recent years. Experts say these hoaxes can traumatize students and first responders. thetr.ac/EryMr

There's a lot of speculation about the motive of the man who killed Charlie Kirk. Regardless of what we learn, this assassination is an accelerant on an already burning fire. "The question is how high it’s gonna burn and how much destruction it’s gonna do," @jeffsharlet.bsky.social tells me.

Political violence like the Charlie Kirk assassination accelerates our march toward civil unrest — but it's not to late to stop it, @jeffsharlet.bsky.social tells my colleague @bychipbrownlee.com

Multiple sites around the country are scrambling after the Trump administration canceled funding for the Firearms Technical Assistance Project, a program that brings together community organizations to tackle the dangers posed by guns in domestic abuse situations. www.thetrace.org/2025/09/trum...

Rita Oceguera keeps a spotlight on disinfo for @thetrace.org www.thetrace.org/2025/09/chic...

From a prescient 2024 opinion piece in @thetrace.org : "To counter the ideology that drives political violence, we must refrain from normalizing the permission structure that condones it. ... Political leaders bear a significant responsibility." www.thetrace.org/2024/08/trum...

Cleaner neighborhoods and green spaces point to a decline in crime. Could it help Philadelphia?

@jenmascia.bsky.social found there were at least 22 swatting hoaxes at American colleges just between the last week of August and early September. "Most of the calls involved an armed person in the library. Some featured gunshots in the background." www.thetrace.org/2025/09/swat... #tellewa

We have updated the Gun Violence Data Hub's page featuring data on mass shootings. This data comes from the Gun Violence Archive, and uses their definition of "a minimum of four victims shot." You can find more information and download the data at this link datahub.thetrace.org/dataset/mass...

From a @thetrace.org Q&A with a Yale policing expert: "If we were talking about a city and a state, the National Guard wouldn’t be able to exercise general police powers like making arrests or investigating crimes. Washington poses a very different issue." www.thetrace.org/2025/08/trum...

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Some helpful historical context from my colleagues @jenmascia.bsky.social and @bychipbrownlee.com on how we got here www.thetrace.org/2024/04/colu...

In light of today’s shooting in Minnesota, here’s a relevant bit from the gun industry’s own research, which I obtained earlier this summer

"Under the Constitution, policing powers are reserved to the states. The federal government has very little legal authority to intrude on those powers." Important context from Yale’s Jorge Camacho in this @thetrace.org Q&A by @jenmascia.bsky.social

In a Q&A with a law and policing expert, @jenmascia.bsky.social explores limits to further crackdowns in Democratic cities that have opposed Trump. www.thetrace.org/2025/08/trum...

An inside look from @vansant.bsky.social www.thetrace.org/2025/08/marc...

More CDC cuts could wipe out one of the most reliable sources of gun violence data. To show what’s at stake as Congress moves to enact the agency’s next budget, @thetrace.org compiled 10 examples of how the CDC’s gun violence work has helped reveal trends, shape interventions, and inform policy.

Claim: Washington D.C. hasn't had a murder since Trump sent in the troops on August 11. Fact: There was a murder on August 13. No murders since then — but there have been 7 shootings. A total of 8 people were wounded www.gunviolencearchive.org/query/3378d4...

"The ongoing dispute exposed a foundational fracture in the city’s community violence intervention efforts. … That structural shift, according to several local activists, marked the beginning of a more top-down, enforcement-driven approach."

The latest from @josiahbates.bsky.social www.thetrace.org/2025/08/minn...

In the 1990s, John Jay professor David Kennedy pioneered a groundbreaking violence prevention strategy. @bychipbrownlee.com spoke to him about Trump's strategy to reduce crime in D.C. and what a more effective approach might look like.

March for Our Lives helped usher in major gun policy wins, but now faces new challenges. Layoffs, internal divides, and a lawsuit alleging racism all point to deeper questions about sustainability and leadership in young advocacy groups. New @thetrace.org story by @vansant.bsky.social

March for Our Lives, an important youth mobilizer, has hit hard times. Quite hard. Details in my latest story: www.thetrace.org/2025/08/marc...

As a former homepage and engagement editor for NPR, I found @joshuabenton.com's latest Nieman Lab piece from their rankings of media (first local newspapers, then nonprofit news sites) takes a look at the top 25 local public media sites very insightful about the challenges ahead.

I spoke with crime prevention expert David Kennedy about the Trump administration’s takeover of law enforcement in the nation’s capital, and the tactics that might prove more effective.

As students head back to school in Chicago, many will be exposed to gun violence. @thetrace.org's Gun Violence Data Hub collaborated with @wgntv.com to track the alarming number of shootings near schools wgntv.com/news/wgn-inv...

Trump claimed the nation’s capital has been “taken over by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals.” But crime in D.C. and other cities he's targeted is not out of control — in fact, it’s decreasing. Below, we fact-check his claims.

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