Everytown

US gun violence — including school shootings, mass shootings and accidental gun deaths — reached all-time highs after the pandemic hit and show no sign of slowing down in 2022. We explored the factors causing the surge and break down America’s gun problem in graphics.

When gunmakers and dealers gather this week in Las Vegas for the industry’s largest annual conference, they will be grappling with slumping sales and a shift in politics that many didn’t envision two years ago when gun-friendly Donald Trump and a GOP-controlled Congress took office. Some of the top priorities for the industry — expanding the reach of concealed carry...

A quick stop by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Saturday in the state that holds the first primary in the race for the White House is sparking more speculation about a possible White House bid by the billionaire media company founder and gun safety advocate. Bloomberg was the main attraction at the get-out-the-vote rally for six candidates...

One of the five employees slain in the June shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Maryland will have his novel published.

The artist behind Chicago’s famous bean-shaped sculpture has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the National Rifle Association of copyright infringement by using an image of his work in a video advertisement last year.

A year ago, the nation’s most powerful gun lobby was riding high: The millions the National Rifle Association had spent to help elect Donald Trump, one of the nation’s most gun-friendly presidents, had paid off, and members were hopeful that more firearms restrictions would soon be eased. Oh, how things have changed. In the last 12 months, Americans have witnessed...

The teenage girl who was shot in the halls of her high school has died, the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday.

A teenage girl who was shot in the halls of her high school has life-threatening injuries.

A key House committee on Wednesday approved a Republican bill to expand gun owners’ rights — the first gun legislation since mass shootings in Las Vegas and Texas killed more than 80 people....
On a party-line vote, the Judiciary Committee backed a bill that would allow gun owners with a state-issued concealed carry permit to carry a handgun in any state...

Some experts say domestic violence is a common thread in mass shootings. Mildred Muhammad, D.C. Sniper John Allen Muhammad’s ex-wife, said she knows about the connection first-hand.

Devin Patrick Kelley, the shooter who killed 26 people in a Texas church, was court-martialed in 2014 while in the Air Force for domestic assault after he beat and choked his wife and fractured his infant stepson’s skull. He also sent threatening text messages to his mother-in-law, authorities said. He’s not the first mass shooter with links to domestic violence....

Before Maria Wright’s son Jerry was killed in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, one year ago, she had done little to try to change the country’s gun laws. Horrified by the bloodbath at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and other mass shootings, she had donated money and had signed petitions but that was it. This time when...