Gun Violence

A record number of mass shootings in the US has sparked a passionate new call for gun control reform.

How the March for Our Lives activists see the country now

By Siona Peterous March 26

Buffalo, seven weeks after the massacre

By Fabiola Cineas February 15

New York’s restrictive gun laws didn’t stop the Buffalo shooter

By Nicole Narea February 15

America’s unique, enduring gun problem, explained

By Nicole Narea, Li Zhou, and 1 more February 14

6 Updates

Biden’s State of the Union 2023: Full coverage and highlights

By Vox Staff February 7

It’s now legal for domestic abusers to own a gun in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi

By Ian Millhiser February 2

Alec Baldwin’s criminal charges and Rust’s chaotic production, explained

By Aja Romano January 31

Asian Americans are reeling from California’s back-to-back mass shootings

By Li Zhou January 26

Why older mass shooters like the California gunmen are so rare

By Nicole Narea January 25

Why California’s strict gun control laws didn’t stop the Monterey Park shooter

By Nicole Narea January 23

The legal loophole that could arm mass shooters with makeshift automatic rifles

By Ian Millhiser January 10

Shooting at Colorado LGBTQ club kills 5, injures 25

By Ellen Ioanes November 20, 2022

The Future Perfect 50

Jennifer Doleac is helping us find nuanced, effective ways to fight crime

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg October 20, 2022

Alex Jones lost a $1 billion trial. Why is Infowars still streaming?

By Peter Kafka October 19, 2022

Alex Jones’s lies have cost him $965 million in a second Sandy Hook trial

By Aja Romano October 12, 2022

Critics said nothing would change after Sandy Hook. Actually, a lot has.

By Marin Cogan August 22, 2022

Gavin Newsom’s plan to save the Constitution by trolling the Supreme Court

By Ian Millhiser July 25, 2022

27 Updates

A deadly elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas

By Vox Staff July 18, 2022

3 takeaways from Texas’s investigation of the Uvalde school shooting

By Nicole Narea July 18, 2022

The post-legal Supreme Court

By Ian Millhiser July 9, 2022

How the Uvalde police failed

By Fabiola Cineas June 24, 2022

Congress passes a landmark gun control package

By Nicole Narea June 24, 2022

The Supreme Court’s new gun ruling means virtually no gun regulation is safe

By Ian Millhiser June 23, 2022

How Hollywood validates the myth of the good guy with a gun

By Alissa Wilkinson June 23, 2022

What the Supreme Court’s big gun case could mean for blue state reforms

By Nicole Narea June 23, 2022

“We’re expected to be human shields”: Teachers are unprotected — and scared

By Fabiola Cineas June 13, 2022

“Miracles sometimes happen”: The Senate hasn’t given up on gun control — yet

By Li Zhou June 10, 2022

Red states aren’t following Florida’s lead on gun control

By Nicole Narea June 8, 2022

What the TSA could teach Congress about gun control

By Rani Molla June 7, 2022

Guns do more than kill

By Keren Landman June 6, 2022

What does the Second Amendment mean in 2022?

By Ellen Ioanes June 5, 2022

What would it mean to treat guns the way we treat cars?

By Muizz Akhtar June 5, 2022

Blue states are responding to Uvalde

By Nicole Narea June 3, 2022

How to prevent gun deaths without gun control

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg June 3, 2022

How to prevent another white supremacist massacre

By Fabiola Cineas June 1, 2022

Polling is clear: Americans want gun control

By Rani Molla June 1, 2022

Pro-gun rights lawmakers want to arm teachers, but there’s little evidence these programs work

By Natasha Ishak May 29, 2022

Days after school shooting, Republicans defend gun rights at NRA convention

By Natasha Ishak May 28, 2022

The Uvalde police keep changing their story

By Fabiola Cineas May 27, 2022

Mass shootings typically lead to looser gun laws, not stronger ones

By Zack Beauchamp May 27, 2022