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 ...

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 ...

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

Our journey began with a mock crime scene: a recovered stolen ... Stephanie Eckerman. Using a collection of reference ammunition, Eckerman test-fires the gun into a water tank.

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 ...