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Country music has a long history with guns and gun culture, from songs about handing down family heirloom rifles to harvesting that first buck of the season. Ketch Secor, the leader of Old Crow Medicine Show, is a gun owner, but never thought he’d become a staunch advocate for gun …

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 …

T his story waspublished in partnership withThe Trace,a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence.Subscribe to itsnewsletters SUSAN WEBB STOOD with her ­colleague on Parks Road. The Chesapeake Bay and the abandoned store with the sagging roof were behind them, the smell of discarded crab lingering in the air. Once again, someone …

Gloria Cazares can’t tell you if she’s going to have a good day or a bad day. Some mornings, she wakes up, makes breakfast, and does a few chores around the house. Other mornings, she can’t get out of bed. The thought of cooking a meal is overwhelming. She scrolls …

Some of Nashville’s biggest artists are coming together to urge Tennessee lawmakers to pass “common sense gun safety legislation” before the General Assembly ends their session, the Tennessean reports. Sheryl Crow, Kacey Musgraves, Amy Grant, Jason Isbell and dozens of other signees drafted a letter calling for Tennessee Gov. Bill …

Ketch Secor helped found the Episcopal School of Nashville, where his two young children are currently students. It’s a small, private Christian institution that has much in common with the Covenant School of Nashville, which was the site of a grisly mass shooting earlier this week that claimed the lives …

“It’s a shitty time of year.” It’s a Friday in early December, and I ask Nelba Márquez-Greene how she’s doing. In roughly two weeks, it will be 10 years since her daughter, Ana, was killed at the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. She’s fending off interview requests from news …

Republican and Democratic Senators have signed onto a tentative agreement for gun reform legislation in the wake of the shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school. The proposed deal for bipartisan reform, a group of senators announced Sunday, includes enhanced background checks for buyers ages 18-21 as well as funding …