Reports

How Guns Fuel Violence Against Transgender People in America

Black trans women are bearing the brunt of a crisis of gun violence, often at the hands of perpetrators who are prohibited from owning guns.

Preventing Gun Violence by Investigating Attempted Gun Purchases by Domestic Abusers

Who is Manufacturing the Guns Used in Crimes?

The same manufacturers who are engaging in risky business practices to profit the most from gun sales are also behind the most gun crimes.

Part Four: Gun Violence Recovery

Part Three: Gun Violence Response

Part Two: Gun Violence Preparation

Part One: Gun Violence Prevention

NEA School Gun Violence Prevention and Response Guide

Dual Tragedies: Domestic Homicide-Suicides with a Firearm

Guns are the centerpiece of the dual tragedies of intimate partner homicide and suicide. We must reduce abusers’ access to guns.

Paranoia and Profit: Armed Extremism and the Gun Industry’s Role in Fostering It

Ensuring Effective Implementation of Laws that Disarm Domestic Abusers

Many states have not fully implemented laws that disarm domestic abusers, leaving survivors at risk.

Inside the Gun Shop: Firearms Dealers and Their Impact

This report spells out the basic facts about licensed dealers and the relationship between these dealers and gun crimes.

Promising Approaches for Implementing Extreme Risk Laws: A Guide for Practitioners and Policymakers

This guide details the best available practices and promising approaches to effective implementation of extreme risk laws.

Beyond Measure: Gun Violence Trauma

This study focuses on trauma from gun violence by listening to the voices and experiences of those directly impacted.

Mass Shootings in the United States

Mass shootings haunt our nation’s collective conscience. Each breaking-news alert results in grief at the acts of preventable violence.

Suicidio con armas de fuego en las ciudades: El lado menos conocido de la violencia con armas de fuego en las ciudades

Las tasas de personas que mueren por suicidio con armas de fuego en las ciudades están en aumento.

Gun Violence Survivors in America

This survey explores the breadth of gun violence in America and how it impacts survivors.

The Gun Industry’s Power Broker: A Closer Look at the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the Front Group for America’s Gun Makers and Sellers

The NSSF isn’t as well known as the NRA, but it is just as extreme and exacerbates our gun violence epidemic.

Shooting Straight: What TV Stories Tell Us About Gun Safety, How These Depictions Affect Audiences, and How We Can Do Better

This research project explores how often gun safety and prevention measures are portrayed or discussed in entertainment media.

Gun Suicide in Cities: The Lesser-Known Side of City Gun Violence

Rates of people who die by gun suicide in cities are on the rise, but, until now, a dearth of city-level data leaves it often overlooked.

How To Stop Shootings and Gun Violence in Schools: A Plan to Keep Students Safe

We need meaningful actions to keep our schools safe, actions that address what we know about gun violence in America’s schools.

Armed Extremism in Buffalo: Online Gun Communities Provide a Path of Radicalization and Training to a Racist Shooter

The Buffalo, NY mass shooting in May 2022 at Tops Friendly Market was an act of white supremacist, hate-motivated violence.

The Economic Cost of Gun Violence

In an average year, gun violence in America kills 40,000 people, wounds nearly twice as many, and costs our nation $557 billion.

The Rise of Firearm Suicide Among Young Americans

Firearm suicide is having a devastating impact on American youth, particularly during COVID-19. But suicide can be prevented.