Guns

New CDC data suggests suicide is becoming more commonplace in America.

• By Jared Keller

Gun advocates are arguing that the controversial law is keeping students safer, but there's little evidence to back those claims.

• By James McWilliams

Abused women are five times more likely to be killed if the perpetrator owns a firearm.

• By Natalie Pattillo

Policemen block an exit in Cologne's main railway station, where a man took a hostage in the early afternoon on October 15th, 2018, at Cologne Central Station in Cologne, Germany.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

RJ Young's memoir recounts how he tried to endear himself to his white in-laws by learning how to shoot. Both love affairs eventually fell apart.

• By Peter C. Baker

District Judge Robert S. Lasnik ruled in favor of Washington, D.C., and 19 states that had filed a lawsuit against Defense Distributed.

• By Rebecca Worby

Firefighters take on Verizon, the secretary of education pushes for guns in schools, and scientists find ice on the moon.

• By Rebecca Worby

The CDC analysis recorded 14,415 gun-related homicides in 2016.

• By Emily Moon

Orania, South Africa: Niklas Kirsten, a former paratrooper in the South African Army, instructs Erik Du Pree on handgun self-defense in the fields outside an ultra-conservative, all-Afrikaner stronghold known as Orania.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

By treating each mass shooting as an isolated tragedy, we are giving mass shooters—and the toxic communities they stem from—exactly what they want.

• By Jared Keller

The coffin of Santa Fe High School shooting victim Sabika Sheikh, 17, is carried during her funeral service in Stafford, Texas, on May, 20th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

There is brimming triangular tension between local, state, and national governing bodies about how cities should best protect their citizenry from gun violence.

• By Sarah Holder

In the two decades since the Dickey Amendment, national data collection on gun-related injuries and deaths has been underfunded at best and systematically undermined at worst.

• By Dabney P. Evans

In a Friday ruling, the judge upheld Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey's crackdown on copycat assault weapons.

• By Kate Wheeling

The marchers offered an array of ideas for reducing gun violence in America.

• By Francie Diep

What happens when suicide forestalls any possibility of justice?

• By Hanif Abdurraqib

And how we might better prevent their deaths.

• By Francie Diep

Rather than a full repeal of the Dickey Amendment, Republicans agree to include a provision in the spending bill to clarify that they never prohibited research on gun violence in the first place.

• By Kate Wheeling

Congressional leaders intend to include a bipartisan measure called Fix National Instant Criminal Background System, which addresses the thoroughness of gun-purchase background checks by encouraging state use of criminal databases.

• By Candace Butera

As the Trump administration and NRA continue to push the idea of arming teachers, what are the actual statistics around putting more guns in schools?

• By Mimi Kirk

Today marks one month since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

• By Candace Butera

Nikolas Cruz has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder in the first degree and 17 counts of attempted murder in the first degree.

• By Kate Wheeling

Research shows that over half of U.S. gun owners aren't storing all their guns safely.

• By Jared Keller

In the wake of last month's deadly shooting in Parkland, Pacific Standard talked to a few leading scholars on how the insanity defense ought to be used in the courtroom.

• By Candace Butera