More than 1,000 people died in murder-suicides in America in 2025. Ninety-two percent of the killers were male, 87 percent of the killers used a gun, and 65 percent involved an intimate partner, according to the ninth edition of the Violence Policy Center (VPC) study American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States. Among the findings:
As you probably already know, the U.S. Department of Justice this month filed two lawsuits in Colorado—one against the City of Denver and one against the State—targeting an assault weapons ban and a high-capacity magazine ban, respectively. The AW ban was passed in Denver in 1989, and the state high-capacity magazine ban passed in 2013.
The 2026 Colorado Legislature adjourned last Wednesday, after another strong year for gun violence prevention advocates. Eight bills were passed this year, tying last year’s record, and three have already been signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis. SB26-004, Expand List of Petitioners for ERPO, was arguably the biggest GVP ‘win’ this year. It became
Devin L. Hughes, CFA, is the Founder of GVPedia, Inc. and a noted authority on the gun violence issue. His new book, The Myths we Carry: An Advocate’s Guide to the Gun Debate, is a tight, evidence-based look at gun violence in the U.S. and the disingenuous tactics used by the gun lobby to protect
Gary Walker Jones/Unsplash For the second time in two days, the Trump Administration has filed suit against a decades-old gun violence prevention law in our state. On Wednesday, The U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against the State of Colorado over the high-capacity magazine ban passed after the 2012 Aurora Theater Shooting. That shooter fired
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office on April 23 released more than 600 pages of investigative documents on last year’s Evergreen High School shooting, after months of complaints about a lack of transparency. The JCSO said it wished to disclose as much as possible partly as a response to lessons learned from the 1999 Columbine Shooting,
Right before filing suit against Denver, the U.S. Department of Justice rolled back several gun regulations, including reinstating the so-called ‘gun show loophole,’ which allowed people at gun shows to buy firearms without a background check. The change is meaningless in Colorado, where voters officially closed the loophole in November 2000 by approving Amendment 22
After recording one of its lowest homicide totals last year (35), Denver is still ‘off track’ towards its goal of reducing gun-related homicides by 10% and shootings in ‘high-risk’ neighborhoods by 20%, Mayor Mike Johnston said last week. Gun homicides are flat from last year, Johnston said, but shootings in ‘high risk’ neighborhoods have gone
After its threats to do so were dismissed by City leaders, the Trump administration sued the city of Denver on Tuesday over the city’s assault weapons ban, one day before suing the state over its high-capacity magazine law. The 37-year-old law violates the 2nd Amendment, the Department of Justice said in its complaint. The local
Brady issued a memo on April 2 lauding the role gun laws have played in the recent drop in violent crimes. Among the statistics the group cited: However, the group warns, there is still far too much gun violence in America: “Gun crime is falling in America—and that didn’t happen by chance, the memo says.
