On Thursday, 6/2, President Joe Biden addressed the nation and called for a series of specific actions to respond to the recent mass shootings across the country…
On Thursday, 6/2, the House Judiciary Committee approved a wide-ranging package of gun control in the wake of this month’s mass shootings…
A bipartisan group of senators met again on Wednesday, 6/1, to work towards a bill in the wake of the Uvalde mass shooting…
Democrats and Republicans will forever argue about the effectiveness of gun laws to prevent mass shootings…
Last week, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced the Age 21 Act, a bill that would raise the minimum age to purchase assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines from 18 to 21…
As Congress remains gridlocked on gun legislation in the wake of recent shootings, Democratic state leaders are demanding immediate action…
Four people were killed by a shooter inside a Tulsa, OK medical facility on Wednesday, 6/1…
The investigation into last month’s hate-related mass shooting in a Buffalo grocery store revealed the suspect spent months planning the attack and evaded New York’s red flag laws…
Ohio and Louisiana are considering decreasing the requirements to arm school staff members or permitting employees to carry firearms after they fulfill the required training, despite opposition from gun safety advocates, teachers’ groups and school security experts…
The FBI released data showing a rapidly escalating pattern of public shootings in the U.S. on Monday, 5/23, one day before the massacre in Uvalde…
A growing body of research suggests these assaults spread similar to a viral disease…
In a 2018 survey conducted by the Harris Poll for the American Psychological Association, 75 percent of young people between 15 and 21 said that mass shootings were significant sources of stress for them…
From 2019 to 2020, firearm homicides increased more than any other time in the last 100 years of record keeping…
On the second anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, 5/25, Biden signed an executive order aimed at changing how police use force…
The City of Baltimore sued one of the country’s largest “ghost gun” manufacturers on Wednesday, 6/1, seeking unspecified damages for its role in “flooding” the city with illegal guns and for the trauma and injuries caused…
Attorney General Merrick Garland has revised rules governing the use of force by law enforcement agencies overseen by the Justice Department - the first revision of the department’s use-of-force policy in 18 years…
District Attorney Chesa Boudin has been a leader of the national movement for criminal justice reform, however, a well-funded recall campaign could unseat Boudin next week…
The Department of Justice launched a new National Law Enforcement Knowledge Lab in April that provides free training, technical assistance, and a resource hub for police to promote constitutional policing, improve public safety and build trust in communities…
State and local lawmakers are placing limits on “pretextual stops,” when an officer pulls over a person for a low-level offense because they want to investigate the driver for an unrelated matter…
Criminal justice experts estimate that police carry out tens of thousands of no-knock raids every year nationwide, mostly in drug-related searches…