Spinal cord injuries often result in permanent neurological damage and paralysis. Scientists are developing therapies to ...

The Trace was nominated for two Online Journalism Awards, prizes that celebrate excellence, ambitious and high-impact digital reporting, audience engagement, and storytelling. The Trace also received ...

While long guns, like rifles and shotguns, still account for a majority of privately-owned weapons, civilian gun owners have acquired 40 to 50 million handguns since 1994. Eighty percent of gun owners ...

Without government funding, local activists in Fort Wayne say interrupting violence is an uphill battle — especially among young people.

Since SCOTUS decided that modern gun laws should reflect America’s history, researchers have been combing through records from the country’s early days.

A Decade of American Gun Violence What We Learned From Analyzing 10 Years of Shooting Data A Trace series challenges what many people might think about gun violence in America. Here are the highlights ...

Red Flag Laws: Which States Have Gun Violence Restraining Orders? Since the Parkland mass shooting, more than a dozen states have passed laws to remove guns from people who could be dangerous.

On Tuesday, a federal judge in California delivered a blistering ruling declaring that President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles was illegal and blocking the ...

Gun Industry Research Shows Firearm Owners May Be Open to Major Reforms Trace senior staff writer Mike Spies obtained a copy of a 2019 study that tested the power of pro-gun and anti-gun messages.

The Business of Guns Gun Rights Supporters Could Accept Significant Regulations, Per Industry’s Research After Parkland, the gun industry found that people with “positive feelings” about gun ownership ...