A deeply divided Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion today, 6/24, overruling the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and leaving the question of abortion’s legality to the states…
The Center for Policing Equity (CPE) views with alarm the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and is gravely concerned that the Court's ruling will upend established law and allow states across the country to criminalize abortion…
Congress sent legislation today, 6/23, to President Biden to keep firearms out of the hands of some individuals, after a small group of Republicans joined Democrats to break through their party’s long standing blockade of gun safety measures and end nearly three decades of unsuccessful efforts to toughen gun laws…
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, 6/23, that Americans have a broad right to arm themselves in public, striking down a New York law that placed strict limits on carrying guns outside the home and setting off a scramble in other states that have similar restrictions…
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) worked closely with lawmakers to shape the bipartisan gun safety measure…
The Supreme Court upheld gun owners’ rights to carry a loaded weapon in public, ruling that the 2nd Amendment right to “bear arms” overrides laws in New York and California that restrict who may legally carry guns when they leave home…
Mothers and grandmothers filed into a school board meeting to confront local officials after the shooting at Robb Elementary on Monday, 6/20…
To better understand the root causes of school shootings and identify possible intervention points, NIJ-supported researchers created The American School Shooting Study (TASSS) to fill the gap – a groundbreaking, national open-source database of all known shootings that resulted in at least one injury on K-12 school grounds between 1990 and 2016, including shootings that took place on school grounds or in close proximity and those known as mass school shootings…