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3Qs: How safe are US airports?
The Transportation Security Administration is finding more firearms than ever at airport checkpoints. Over the past decade, gun seizures have taken off, rising from 660 in 2005 to 2,653 in 2015. And...
View ArticleStudy: 70M more firearms added to US gun stock over past 20 years
The estimated number of privately-owned guns in America grew by more than 70 million—to approximately 265 million—between 1994 and 2015, and half of that gun stock is owned by only 3 percent of the...
View Article3Qs: Debating the impact of ‘stand your ground’ laws
The death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed, black teenager shot by self-appointed community watch captain George Zimmerman in Florida, has sparked a turbulent nationwide dialogue on race and so-called...
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Trump’s Supreme Court choice would tilt America dramatically to the right
President Donald Trump’s most recent nomination to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, is likely to have a far greater impact on the direction of American society than his first appointment, according...
View ArticleNortheastern report finds stricter gun laws don’t prevent law-abiding...
Massachusetts has some of the most restrictive gun licensing laws in the country. Yet 97 percent of people who apply for a license are still granted one. That’s one finding from a new Northeastern...
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Do more guns lead to more fatal police shootings?
Police shootings of civilians are more likely in states with high rates of gun ownership, according to a new study by researchers from Northeastern and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health....
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Clearing up misconceptions about gun violence could make suicide attempts...
When we talk about gun violence in the United States, we talk about homicides. But there are roughly twice as many suicides as homicides every year, and more than half of them involve guns. According...
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Northeastern University researcher Matthew Miller says that storing your gun...
A modest increase in the number of people who store firearms in their homes safely could help to save the lives of hundreds of children each year, according to a new study conducted by Northeastern...
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Trump rallies and social justice protests may have driven a big year for gun...
Gun sales in the United States soared in 2020, and those purchases correlated with participation in pro-Donald Trump rallies or protests against racism and police violence, according to a new study by...
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Is the new Texas gun law based on a misconception about mass shootings?
A new law that will enable people in Texas who are 21 or older to carry a handgun without a permit and background check could backfire, says James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern and one of...
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After Sandy Hook, she knew she had to do something about mass shootings.
Sarah Peck was at State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. in December 2012 when something on TV caught her attention. “I could see that there was a mass shooting being reported in Newtown,...
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U.S. gun sales have been surging, study finds
An estimated 7.5 million U.S. adults became new gun owners over a recent 28-month span, sharply increasing the prospects for home accidents or people taking their own lives, according to research by...
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Here’s how the $73M Sandy Hook settlement against a gunmaker could prompt...
A unique settlement that pays $73 million to the families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims is influencing the way guns are marketed in the United States—and may inspire lawsuits in other...
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America mourns another school shooting. Why is it so difficult to strengthen...
The murders of at least 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school have led to more demands for a coherent approach to gun and mental health reforms in the United States. Shortly after...
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Northeastern professor’s Mass Killings Database goes public
The longest-running and most extensive data source on mass killings reveals that 2,646 people in the United States have died in 504 events over the past 17 years. The Associated Press/USA...
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Access to guns, mental health should be the focus following Michigan State...
Three students were killed and five others were critically injured by a shooter at Michigan State University on Monday. “Our campuses, churches, classrooms and communities should not be...
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