Intimate partner homicides are skyrocketing, yet police, prosecutors and judges often trust offenders to disarm themselves.
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Unrelinquished
A documentary from Reveal and Al Jazeera English exposes how ineffective laws have allowed domestic abusers to keep their guns – with deadly consequences.
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Help Us Investigate Domestic Violence Shootings
We’re trying to get a more accurate picture of how many people have been shot by offenders illegally possessing firearms.
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When Abusers Keep Their Guns
By law, domestic abusers are banned from owning guns. But too often, those laws aren’t enforced, and the consequences can be deadly.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Guns and Society
Austin stops selling police guns after Texas Standard/Reveal investigation
City officials said they were worried that guns sold to the public would end up in the hands of criminals.
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What documenting mass shooting survivors taught me
In the wake of a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, filmmaker Olivia Merrion reflects on her work documenting survivors of such tragedies.
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Police guns are turning up in crimes, but ATF can’t talk about it
The public used to know when and how police guns turned up in crimes. But in 2003, Congress passed a law prohibiting the release of trace information.
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Thieves are breaking into Florida gun stores, often in brazen ways
Thieves use rocks, bricks and even trucks to smash storefronts and gain access to hoards of weapons, a Tampa Bay Times and Reveal investigation finds.
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82,000 stolen guns are missing in Florida
A thriving supply chain provides criminals in Florida tens of thousands of guns, an investigation by the Tampa Bay Times and Reveal has found.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Lone wolves are the face of modern domestic terrorism
A Southern Poverty Law Center study found that 74 percent of domestic terrorism attacks between 2009 and 2015 were carried out by a person acting alone, without any outside money or direction.