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This story is published in partnership withThe Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to itsnewsletters. In August 2016, exciting news about an unprecedented partnership between the gun industry’s trade group and the country’s leading suicide prevention organization popped up on social media. The collaboration, the posts said, aimed …

This story is published in partnership withThe Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to itsnewsletters. For as long as there has been a gun-rights movement, the movement’s leaders, industry representatives, and academic supporters have argued that carrying firearms made Americans more secure. Studies conducted over the past 14 …

The Supreme Court announced last week that it is taking up a contentious gun case in which the government of Mexico is suing U.S. gun manufacturers. Mexico alleges the companies are raking in hundreds of millions in profits by “knowingly” flooding that country with military-grade assault weapons and other guns …

This story was published in partnership withThe Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to itsnewsletters While the public knows the National Rifle Association chiefly as a lobbying and campaign juggernaut, the Internal Revenue Service classifies the group as a “social welfare organization” whose firearms training, recreational shooting, and …