George LeVines

Minnesota’s Gun Politics Mirror the Nation’s Divide State legislators established a gun violence working group after a high-profile school shooting. A debate over a basic safety measure has left them at a standstill.

After two children were killed in a school shooting, Minnesota lawmakers formed a bipartisan group to find common ground on gun violence prevention. Two meetings in, they're already at a standstill, split between seeing guns as a crisis or a culture. My latest for @thetrace.org

These Neighborhood Groups Are Fighting to Rewrite Brownsville’s Legacy of Violence I first met Gene Krell in February of 2020, when I was photographing the Black Lives Matter movement in New York City. Krell was a native of Brownsville, a residential neighborhood on the east side of...

It's projects like this that make me proud to be part of @thetrace.org. I'm from Brownsville, and I don't think I've ever seen it captured this way in any other news outlet.

Where Are People Being Shot in America? The Trace’s Atlas of American Gun Violence has been updated to allow you to search by address, county, congressional district, type of shooting — and to download maps.

@thetrace.org updated its Atlas of American Gun Violence, a detailed, searchable map showing where and when shootings happen across the U.S. An essential tool.

Today, we're debuting a new feature on @thetrace.org called 92 Days in Gun Violence. It's a quarterly update. The big finding thru Q3 is that have been fewer shooting deaths in 2025 than any year in a decade.

Plus more on gun sales, our work, and recent research:
www.thetrace.org/2025/10/shoo...

Gun Stores Are Struggling Under Trump Dealers say the president’s gun-friendly policies have actually hurt their sales. “People have a tendency to want what they feel is under threat," one said.

Gun dealers talk to @champebarton.bsky.social about the drop in demand, what drives sales, and the state of the industry.

Some dealers are seeing folks who bought during the pandemic sales surge now seeking to sell their guns.

www.thetrace.org/2025/10/gun-...

A Program Backed by the Gun Industry Failed to Reduce Suicide — and Was Secretly Shut Down Early The country’s best-known suicide prevention group teamed up with the gun industry. The effort was good for public relations and raising money, but it never met its goal, and internal records show why.

1/My latest story, part 4 of our series “The Secret Files of the Gun Industry,” begins in in 2016, when the country’s best-known suicide prevention group teamed up with the gun industry to tackle the biggest form of gun death + help reduce suicide 20% by 2025 www.thetrace.org/2025/10/gun-...

Powerful story from @wyofile.com on gun suicides in the 70+ population in Wyoming, the state with the highest rate in the entire country.

@andrewgraham88.bsky.social got responses from Gov. Mark Gordon and legislative leaders
wyofile.com/older-wyomin...

A Timeline of High-Profile Shootings at Houses of Worship The attack on a Mormon church in Michigan was one of many similar shootings over the past 20 years, according to an analysis by The Trace.

Sunday's church attack in Michigan was at least the 20th high-profile shooting at a U.S. house of worship over the past two decades.

Collectively, these shootings left at least 92 dead and 100 wounded.

How Maine's rates of gun suicide compare to national trends More older Mainers died by gun suicide than in car crashes over a 15-year period, data that mirrors a troubling trend across the country.

Sobering story from @themainemonitor.org on the high rates of gun suicides among older Mainers.

They're the first newsroom to use a new Gun Violence Data Hub dataset to localize a story on this subject.
themainemonitor.org/maine-suicid...

We've posted the data behind this story — on the alarming prevalence of gun suicides among older Americans — on the Gun Violence Data Hub.

That includes county- and state-level data that journalists can use to investigate how this issue affects their communities
datahub.thetrace.org/dataset/gun-...

The Quiet Crisis: What’s Driving Gun Suicides Among Older Americans? More and more older Americans are dying by firearm suicide, a new analysis from The Trace and GQ reveals. Older white men and those in rural areas experience alarmingly high rates.

Older Americans have the highest rates of gun suicide of any age group. Not by a little — by a lot.

Why? I spent months exploring this question through data, field reporting, and interviews with experts. Our story is up today on @thetrace.org

www.thetrace.org/2025/09/gun-...

Trump’s Fixation on Urban Crime Ignores Worsening Rural Violence, Experts Say Public health researchers say the premise behind the president’s federal intervention in D.C. disregards key progress, and sidelines critical suicide prevention efforts.

Public health experts say framing gun violence solely as an “urban” issue ignores rising rates in rural communities, especially suicides, and risks sidelining proven solutions.

@fairrionam.bsky.social digs into this in her latest piece for @thetrace.org

Gun Rights Supporters Could Accept Significant Regulations, Per Industry’s Research After Parkland, the gun industry found that people with “positive feelings” about gun ownership were open to common reform arguments.

As people once again think about gun reforms in the wake of the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting, I hope you’ll read my latest story, which is based on gun industry documents and pubbed in partnership with @thetrace.org and @rollingstone.com

www.thetrace.org/2025/08/gun-...

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The Trace Launches the Gun Violence Data Hub The new initiative is made up of a live help desk, tip sheets, and a soon-to-come data library.

Some exciting news: The Gun Violence Data Hub, the @thetrace.org project I work on, is open for business. You can head over to submit Qs to our team and find resources for covering gun violence www.thetrace.org/2024/11/the-...

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