A new study ranks Mississippi as having the second-weakest gun laws in the US. Mississippi has a gun death rate of 29.4 deaths per 100,000 people, significantly higher than the national average. The ...

People with firearm access are far more likely to experience gun violence than to use their weapon for self-defense, according to a new Rutgers Health study. Although self-defense is the primary ...

More information about gun safety has increasingly led parents to ask about firearms in the homes their kids visit, according to a new national study. The research will be presented at the Pediatric ...

Researchers looked at firearm fatalities in the 13 years immediately after the Supreme Court limited local governments’ ability to restrict gun ownership. By Roni Caryn Rabin Firearm deaths of ...

I first started to think about the implications of gun violence while interning for a newspaper in Chicago in 1993. The city averaged about three murders a day that summer, most attributed to gang ...