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The Republican National Committee released its official platform this week — the first since 2016 — without any mention of gun policy.
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The Republican National Committee released its official platform this week — the first since 2016 — without any mention of gun policy.
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More guns and ammo are making their way to U.S. airports this summer as Americans travel in record-breaking numbers.
Reporting from @washingtonpost.com leads today's Bulletin newsletter:
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Independence Day weekend is almost always the time of year when gun violence kills or injures the most people. But this year, there were fewer people shot than in any year since 2019. What's behind the decline? Olga Pierce reports ⬇️
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Deadline approaching: Our nonprofit newsroom is #hiring a reporter who lives in the Great Lakes region to cover gun violence across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Apply by Friday, July 12! #JournalismJobs
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NEW: Americans bought an estimated 1.2 million guns in June 2024, according to our analysis of FBI data. That's about the same as May 2024 and down 4% from June 2023. See the numbers from your state:
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A Nashville judge issued a long-awaited opinion in the case over whether records related to the shooting at the Covenant School last year, in which six people were killed, should be released to the public.
The decision alarmed some transparency advocates, @sunnysone.bsky.social writes:
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Tamar Manasseh has been organizing moms in her Chicago neighborhood since 2015 to keep watch on a street corner that has long been a hotspot for gun violence.
Recently, she's been wondering if the potential danger is worth it.
More in the Bulletin from @sunnysone.bsky.social:
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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s recent advisory on gun violence was unprecedented in his office’s history.
Murthy tells @bychipbrownlee.bsky.social that he wanted people to understand the broad impact of the issue — but also that “there’s something we can do about this problem.”
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Police in Utica, New York, tackled, punched, and then shot and killed 13-year-old Nyah Mway, a recent middle school graduate who allegedly pointed a pellet gun at them.
Officers said they believed Mway had a real firearm, but later determined that it was a toy, @sunnysone.bsky.social writes.
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NEW: The Supreme Court’s overturning of Chevron was immediately cheered by conservatives, who have been aiming to gut federal authority for decades, specifically in the area of environmental regulation. But gun rights groups also welcomed the decision.
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This is your opportunity to sustain the only team of journalists dedicated to reporting on gun violence: The Trace is hiring a director of development to help sustain and expand our high-impact, award-winning reporting. More info — and how to apply — in the full job description ⬇️
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“He will not be the one who decides when or how the story gets told.” A victim of the 2018 Parkland mass shooting was given the rights to the shooter’s name as part of a negotiated civil settlement — meaning that the shooter can’t grant an interview without written consent. More in the Bulletin:
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“For years to come, people will look at this document.”
A new surgeon general's advisory marks a significant step in the effort to address gun violence as a public health issue — and it could have big implications for public policy.
More from @sunnysone.bsky.social in The Weekly:
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For decades, credit card companies have employed hundreds of different merchant codes to categorize a range of businesses. The 2022 introduction of a code to specifically identify gun stores has driven controversy — and laws against its use in 15 states, Champe Barton reports.
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This week marked the 16th anniversary of the seismic D.C. v. Heller SCOTUS ruling.
For "In Guns We Trust" with @longlead.bsky.social host @vermontgmg.bsky.social spoke with the architect of the case about his search for the perfect plaintiff, and his surprising views on gun regulation today.
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Honored that our @jenmascia.bsky.social received a Society for Features Journalism award this week in a category focused on stories that "educate readers about topics that affect their everyday life."
"I am just in awe at the research this reporter shared with the readers," one of the judges wrote.
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Thanks for reading and sharing, Golda!
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Earlier this spring, 8-year-old Keilyn Natareno survived being struck in the head by a stray bullet.
She was just blocks from her school.
In today's Bulletin, @sunnysone.bsky.social reports on Keilyn's shooting — and connects it to our recent story on the broader issue in Philadelphia:
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What does it mean when the surgeon general says that we need to approach gun violence as a public health issue? Activists and experts have been looking to earlier campaigns on smoking and seat belts, Katie Worth reported in this April feature:
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Our project "Chicago Stories of Survival" was honored by the Society for Features Journalism with a first-place award. The judges called it "a shining example of how journalism can be a powerful force for empowering communities to tell their own stories." Revisit the series of personal essays:
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones owes Sandy Hook families $1.5B in legal penalties.
A bankruptcy trustee indicated that he plans to shutter Infowars’ parent company to pay them.
More from @sunnysone.bsky.social, also featuring reporting from @axios.com, @suntimes.bsky.social, and @nytimes.com:
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Today the U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory declaring gun violence "a public health crisis." Dr. Vivek Murthy is telling the government to combat gun deaths like it fought smoking & car crash-related fatalities through age‑minimums for tobacco purchases, air bags and seat belt requirements.
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At least 158 active-duty soldiers died by suicide in 2023, part of an ongoing crisis in the ranks fueled by firearms. But the Army is limited in its ability to intervene because of gun laws. More in the Bulletin:
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Shortly after Philadelphia banned rapid-fire devices — including bump stocks — two local gun owners sued the city in federal court, saying the measure violates state law. The Philly bill was signed just days after the nation’s highest court struck down a federal prohibition on bump stocks.
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NEWS: U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has issued an unprecedented warning about the deadly and far-reaching effects of gun violence.
The move could draw resources to the issue and influence public policy, @bychipbrownlee.bsky.social reports:
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Last year, in partnership with @washingtonpost.com, our team reported that 100+ people had alleged their P320s fired without the trigger being pulled, injuring at least 80.
SIG Sauer has maintained that the incidents were the result of unsafe handling and that the P320 is safe to use.
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A federal court has found gunmaker SIG Sauer liable in the shooting of a man who claimed his P320 pistol fired when he did not pull the trigger. The second of several dozen lawsuits involving the popular handgun to go to trial, it’s the first in which a jury ruled the gun was defectively designed.
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Preliminary FBI data released this month indicates that crime and violence are falling nationwide. CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC have each spent less than 12 minutes covering the report — and Fox's five minutes came mostly from opinion programming that argued the statistics are incorrect.
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In Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, Conwell Russell Middle School and Willard Frances Elementary sit side by side.
Nearly 500 shootings occurred in the area over ten years.
On average, that is almost a shooting a week. See the data from your city’s schools: thetr.ac/KsOUh
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NEWS: A federal law that prohibits domestic abusers from possessing guns while under a restraining order is constitutional, SCOTUS has ruled.
The decision puts to rest a constitutional challenge that threatened to invalidate a key protection for DV victims, @bychipbrownlee.bsky.social reports.
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Breaking news: In United States v. Rahimi, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by people subject to domestic violence restraining orders. Story to come. Sign up for our newsletter to get it in your inbox:
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When a shooting takes place on school grounds during the school day, it understandably captures attention — the most horrific can turn the name of a school into a shorthand for tragedy.
But every instance of nearby gun violence transforms a school and its community, @sunnysone.bsky.social writes.
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Is the Supreme Court’s conservative majority splintering over gun rights? Justice Amy Coney Barrett signed the 2022 Bruen decision but has seemed disillusioned with Justice Clarence Thomas’s focus on “history and tradition” — which could come into play in the next gun case. More in the Bulletin:
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And here's the full analysis:
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Earlier this week, we published a story about how frequently shootings happen near schools across the United States — based on our analysis of 10 years of data from the Gun Violence Archive as well as records from other sources. Here’s how we did it:
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Exclusive: Chicago officials will announce a two-year, $6.4 million expansion of a successful pilot program that’s helped residents in the aftermath of a shooting. “Trauma has financial costs,” the program’s administrator Stephaney Harris said. The goal is “to mitigate or reduce the impacts.”
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This past weekend, the U.S. experienced at least four mass shootings — a surge of violence in an abnormally warm last few days of spring.
Research has linked hotter temperatures with higher levels of shootings, @sunnysone.bsky.social reports in the Bulletin:
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Newly released ATF records provide new details about firearms smuggled out of the United States — and set a precedent for increased public access to information about guns used in crimes. Why the situation is so unusual:
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In The Trajectory newsletter, @bychipbrownlee.bsky.social explores a potential solution to gun violence every two weeks.
Get the next issue in your inbox:
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A slew of gun safety bills cleared the New York Legislature in the 2024 session.
One in particular could help violence prevention programs reach more students across the state, @bychipbrownlee.bsky.social reports — and it’s currently awaiting the governor’s signature.
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Today marks the 9th anniversary of the day we launched — just after the Charleston mass shooting that killed nine Black members of the congregation at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. We're looking forward to our 10th year. Keep us going strong with a donation today!
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We made a list of the 100 schools that weathered the most gun violence within a 500-yard radius in the last decade. Eighteen of them are in Philadelphia. Mensah M. Dean visited Russell Conwell Middle School, which tops the list, and found that violence takes a toll in ways both sudden and gradual.
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NEW: Every day, an average of 57 shootings occur near a school in the United States, according to a new analysis by The Trace. Last year alone, more than 6 million children attended a school that had at least one shooting in this vicinity. See the data from your city’s schools:
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This past weekend at least five mass shootings killed 10 people and injured more than 70 others across the U.S. Guns are a uniquely American problem, but the U.S. wasn’t always like this.
youtu.be/hi6RRtKeVdw?...
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Today: • SCOTUS struck down a ban on bump stocks, which turn a rifle into a machine gun. • Parkland's high school is being demolished, 6 years after the shooting that killed 17 there. • A judge may order InfoWars owner Alex Jones to sell off assets to pay Sandy Hook families $1.5B in damages.
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Thanks for the support, Sean!
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What other gun cases are still awaiting rulings from SCOTUS?
Here's @bychipbrownlee.bsky.social's report from earlier this year:
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Today's Garland v. Cargill SCOTUS ruling struck down a Trump-era regulation that effectively banned bump stocks. In 2018, the year after the Las Vegas mass shooting, we reported on the gunman's use of the aftermarket devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to mimic automatic rifles' rate of fire.
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The demolition of Parkland high school, the site of the 2018 mass-shooting that killed 17 people, began today. In LONG SHADOW: IN GUNS WE TRUST, produced with
@thetrace.org, @vermontgmg.bsky.social examines the uniquely American problem of gun violence. Listen and subscribe: buff.ly/3Vceu2v
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