Last month, the VPC released its annual analysis of state-by-state gun death using new data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As in previous years, the states with the highest rates of gun death are also the states with the weakest gun laws. Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, New Mexico and Alaska take
A U.S. District Court in Mississippi dismissed a machine gun possession charge, citing the Bruen decision and saying the law runs afoul of American history and tradition regarding the right to keep and bear arms. It is the second such decision in recent months. U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves, a 2010 Obama appointee, agreed
h/t New York Times Birmingham, Ala., coming off a record year for homicides, tried a new solution to prevent gun violence: blocking off streets in trouble-prone (read minority) neighborhoods. But the New York Times reports that so far the measure is just making a bad situation worse. “Struggling schools, high levels of poverty and unemployment
President Trump signed his first pro-gun related Executive Order on Feb. 7, directing newly confirmed Attorney General Pam Bondi to examine within 30 days all “orders, regulations, guidance, plans, international agreements, and other actions of executive departments and agencies” to determine any “ongoing infringements” of the Second Amendment, and present a plan to him on
Several gun bills are up this week— We need you to speak up FOR several and AGAINST one! SB25-059 Supports for State Response to Mass Shootings (Sen. Tom Sullivan, Rep. Steven Woodrow), requires the Division of Criminal Justice to apply for and expend federal and other grant money to improve the state’s response to mass shootings
After a contentious 9-hour hearing, the Colorado Senate State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee voted 3-2 to advance SB25-003, a bill to ban high-capacity firearms that can accept removable high-capacity magazines. Predictably, the vote fell along party lines. Committee Chair Sen. Michael Weissman (D-28) joined Sen. Tom Sullivan (D-27), the bill’s sponsor and vice-chair of
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
