Without any formal announcement, President Donald Trump apparently has shuttered the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. That office, which opened in September 2023 under President Biden, managed a first-ever coordinated federal response to mass shootings and community violence. While gun violence in the U.S. surged during Trump’s first term, the creation of the
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver last week heard arguments in National Association for Gun Rights et al. v. Polis, a suit over the 2023 law prohibiting the possession and purchase firearms lacking a serial number — so-called “ghost guns.” That law makes it a misdemeanor to possess such a gun unless
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The CDC Injury Center has released a new dashboard that visualizes firearm deaths by census tracts using provisional death data received from states. The dashboard has information on suicide and homicide deaths from any cause, but helpfully, you can look at firearm suicides and firearm homicides separately because firearms are used in more than half of all
The handgun police say Luigi Mangione used to fatally shoot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is nearly as recognizable as the now-famous alleged shooter himself—and shows just how common and lethal these weapons have become. The community devoted to 3D-printed firearms quickly identified the suspected murder weapon as a particular model of printable ‘ghost gun‘—a homemade weapon with
Colorado Congresswoman/good-judgment poster girl Lauren Boebert (R-CO4) introduced a bill to abolish the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives last week. Boebert, long an agency critic, says the ATF stands in the way of Americans buying more guns, and that ‘gun free zones’ are the most dangerous places in the country. “We don’t
El Paso Matters After a suicide attempt in March 2020, Army Pvt. Richard Halliday of Fort Bliss (Texas) was committed to a psychiatric center for 72 hours and declared unfit to carry a weapon on duty. But he was able to legally purchase a 9mm handgun at an El Paso gun store. Soon after, and
https://leg.colorado.gov/legislators/jamie-jacksonThe 2025 Colorado General Assembly began Jan. 8, and four bills related to the regulation of firearms were immediately introduced. SB25-003, Semiautomatic Firearms and Rapid Fire Devices, prohibits knowingly manufacturing, distributing, transferring, selling, or purchasing specified semiautomatic firearms. ‘A specified semiautomatic firearm’ is defined in the bill as “a semiautomatic rifle or semiautomatic shotgun with a detachable magazine
Hart Van Denburg/CPR News Trump Election Leaves Questions for ATF After pursuing an aggressive gun control agenda under President Biden, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives faces an uncertain future under Donald Trump. The New York Times reported that Trump is likely to choose a gun rights proponent as ATF director, or simply
Alleged CEO Shooter Possessed ‘Untraceable’ Gun DENVER, DECEMBER 11, 2024 — Colorado Ceasefire, Colorado’s oldest grassroots gun violence prevention organization, today called on federal leaders to ban so-called ‘ghost guns’ after it was revealed that Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson, was apprehended with such a weapon in his
