Important followup from Rita Alejandra Oceguera on the human toll of Chicago's increasing fatality rate: Chicago’s Gun Violence Has Gotten Deadlier. Here’s What That Means for Residents. thetrace.org/2024/10/chicag… with Block Club Chicago

SCOTUS’s VanDerStok Case Isn’t Just About Ghost Guns thetrace.org/2024/10/suprem… Alain Stephens The Trace

My new story, pubbed in partnership w/ Rolling Stone: A former NRA employee was shot and killed by her husband. A red flag law could have saved her. But despite initially supporting these laws in 2018, the NRA, joining a trend, now opposes them. thetrace.org/2024/10/red-fl…

Chicago Trades One Controversial Gun Surveillance Technology for Another thetrace.org/2024/10/chicag… by Justin The Trace

Kamala Harris’s Comments About Gun Ownership Belie the Risks, Researchers Say thetrace.org/2024/10/kamala… champe barton The Trace

Chicago Shooting Survivors, In Their Own Words is in 2nd place to win an Anthem Community Voice Award! 👏 "Celebrating" our work on this platform counts as a vote for its success, so I hope you join us in doing so. celebrate.anthemawards.com/PublicVoting#/… #AnthemAwards

Threats of Political Violence Are Distorting Reality thetrace.org/2024/10/politi… The Trace

A Teen's Killing Sparked a Gun Reform Movement in Rural South Carolina. Here's How It Fared. thetrace.org/2024/10/south-… The Trace

Three Gun Laws Are Stuck in Pennsylvania’s Senate. Could the Election Change Their Fate? thetrace.org/2024/10/pennsy… Mensah M. Dean The Trace

Shooting Deaths Are Down by 10 Percent Across the U.S., Despite What Politicians Say thetrace.org/2024/11/violen… Olga Pierce The Trace

‘The Voices That Really Matter’: Listen to the Chicago Storytellers Speak on Surviving Violence thetrace.org/2024/12/city-c… Thank you City Cast Chicago for being a great partner!

Dozens of Cities Are Paying for Gunshot Detection Tech They May Not Need thetrace.org/2024/12/shotsp…

The Most Memorable Gun Stories From 2024 thetrace.org/2024/12/the-mo…

Keep thinking of the hundreds of millions, maybe billions of dollars spent hardening Jewish institutions against external threats in recent years only to watch a synagogue go up in smoke, maybe multiple on the same night. Climate change is real and this is what it looks like.

Another great story from Mensah M. Dean, this one on promising efforts to reduce gun violence in Philly's Kensington neighborhood. Once home to the Stetson Hat Company, the area has struggled with drugs and crime in recent decades thetrace.org/2025/03/kensin…