Beyond Thoughts & Prayers
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| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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States Double Down as Federal Rules Keep Loosening
Back in May, we introduced Robert Cekada, the newly confirmed ATF director who promised to revoke a slew of Biden-era regulations. This week, Cekada wrote his own explainer defending the specifics of that plan, and it’s worth walking throug...
We’ve Learned a Few Things from Talking to Gun Owners
Most of what gets said about gun owners in this country is said about them, not to them. The assumptions get made, the positions get assigned, and the conversation proceeds as if everyone already knows how it ends.
For years now, we’ve bee...
A Widening Legal Divide on Guns
Back in May, we flagged the topline CDC numbers on 2024 gun deaths. Last week, a fuller picture emerged, and it’s a complicated one. The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions‘ new analysis of that same data confirms the 44,447 gun...
AI and the Radicalization Pipeline
In October 2025, Jonathan Gavalas took his own life after being instructed to do so by Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini. The logs of his conversations with the chatbot revealed that over the preceding months the chatbot had convinced him that it...
Not All Red Flag Laws Are the Same—And That’s a Good Thing
Last month, we hosted a virtual roundtable digging into one of the toughest questions in gun violence prevention: how do Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), commonly known as red flag laws, actually work once they’re on the books?
Our...
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Our mission is to reduce gun deaths in America. We conduct research to identify the policies most effective at achieving that—and most likely to receive support. Then we train law enforcement on how to implement them to make our communities safer.
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