Baltimore is cautiously celebrating a sharp downward trend of ghost guns and what could be a harbinger of progress in the ...

In the most recent data available from 2023, the ATF traced 5,206 guns recovered from crime scenes in Minnesota. Eighty-eight of them were a machine gun or had been converted into one. That number ...

Run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, it's a computer library akin to a finger-print database – but for guns. Shell casings recovered at crime scenes around the country ...

The Trace reports on the ATF's recommendation to the police to stop reselling their used guns less than a year after an ...

Federal firearm tracings offer a rough approximation of gun crime. When firearms are recovered at a crime scene or taken from a suspect, they are often reported to the ATF for tracing. In these ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of untraceable privately-made "ghost guns" recovered at crime scenes surged nearly 1,600% between 2017 and 2023, according to the results of a new federal gun ...