Gun Policy

The American Medical Association came out in support of a slew of progressive proposals to curb gun violence on Tuesday.

• By Kate Wheeling

Sometimes it helps to take a few days to think over an important new purchase.

• By Francie Diep

A new study shows just how easily lawmakers could abate our national gun crisis.

• By Jared Keller

A new report examines data from more than 1,400 studies of programs such as broken windows policing, gun buybacks, therapy, and other attempts to curtail death and violence in American cities.

• By Francie Diep

The numbers remain small, compared to other types of gun fatalities, but such deaths are especially tragic and, according to research, easily preventable.

• By Francie Diep

Recent studies by The New York Times and the Mayo Clinic show how problematic restricting gun rights to the mentally ill can be.

• By Lauren Kirchner

We can continue to argue about gun ownership and its relationship to violence, but studies have confirmed at least a few peculiar aspects of firearms.

• By Ross Pomeroy

You are no less likely to be a victim of violent crime in a country with fewer guns.

• By Tom Hartsfield

If you control for developing countries and South Africa, with its history of apartheid and ethnic conflict, there is a strong link between the number of guns per capita and gun-related homicides in a country.

• By Alex Berezow

We need to stop spinning the research on mass shootings and acts of terror—the outliers—so that we can focus on more common and deadlier threats.

• By Chris Uggen