Guns
The Political Scene Podcast
What You Need to Know About 2024’s Most Significant Supreme Court Decisions
In some of its most consequential cases, the Court is trying to clarify the sweeping decisions it previously made in Bruen and Dobbs.
Daily Comment
The Supreme Court Steps Back from the Brink on Guns
A new ruling upholds a law barring those under certain domestic-violence restraining orders from possessing firearms—but the Court’s stance on gun laws remains trapped in ambiguity.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin
Dispatch
Is Hunter Biden a Scapegoat or a Favored Son?
The portrait that has cohered at his Wilmington trial is of a precious commodity, a man whom others conspire lovingly to shield.
By Katy Waldman
News Desk
Even Before His Trial, the N.R.A.’s Wayne LaPierre Was a Fraud
The pro-gun group’s former leader used the organization’s funds to enrich himself and those close to him. But the deception went much deeper.
By Mike Spies
Our Columnists
Can the Government of Mexico Bring the U.S. Gun Industry to Book?
A federal appeals court has ruled that a lawsuit from the Mexican government against American firearms manufacturers can move forward. Now the gunmakers are preparing an appeal to the Supreme Court.
By John Cassidy
U.S. Journal
An Unpermitted Shooting Range Upends Life in a Quiet Town
Residents of Pawlet, Vermont, were accustomed to calm and neighborly interactions. Then a new resident moved in.
By Paige Williams
Our Columnists
The Dead Children We Must See
It’s time for Americans to rethink their squeamishness about releasing the photos of the youngest victims of mass violence.
By Jay Caspian Kang
The Political Scene Podcast
Sybrina Fulton: “Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Anybody’s Son”
The mother whose teen-age boy’s death inspired a movement a little more than a decade ago continues to grieve his loss, and to demand accountability.
Under Review
How the AR-15 Became an American Brand
The rifle is a consumer product to which advertisers successfully attached an identity—one that has translated to a particularly intractable politics.
By Emily Witt
The Weekend Essay
The Last Gun I Shot
As a Texan, as an American, I believed that I wouldn’t be able to understand where I lived unless I wrapped my head around the guns themselves.
By Rachel Monroe
A Reporter at Large
When Law Enforcement Alone Can’t Stop the Violence
Amid a murder crisis in America, community-based solutions have received a flood of funding. How effective are they?
By Alec MacGillis
Our Columnists
Gun Violence Is America’s Never-Ending Plague
The mass shooting in Monterey Park was one of dozens already this year.
By John Cassidy
Daily Comment
The Spectre of Anti-Asian Violence in the Monterey Park Shooting
As we waited for details to emerge, there was the familiar apprehension and dread experienced by so many Asian Americans since attacks against them began to soar during the pandemic.
By Michael Luo
A Reporter at Large
The Shoddy Conclusions of the Man Shaping the Gun-Rights Debate
John Lott is the most influential pro-gun researcher in the country. But his methods and findings have been repeatedly debunked.
By Mike Spies
Daily Comment
Highland Park and an Illegitimate Supreme Court
Recent rulings on gun and abortion rights have revealed a conservative majority executing a long-standing agenda of radical right-wing ideas.
By Adam Gopnik
Daily Comment
The Supreme Court’s Reckless Ruling on Guns
The decision will expose any number of well-established laws to similar challenges, and rattle efforts to arrive at a national consensus on guns.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin
Our Local Correspondents
What the Supreme Court’s Gun Ruling Means for New York
On Thursday, a conservative majority struck down a hundred-and-eleven-year-old gun law restricting the ability to carry handguns outside of the home.
By Eric Lach
Q. & A.
The Historical Cherry-Picking at the Heart of the Supreme Court’s Gun-Rights Expansion
A century-old New York law requiring individuals to prove “proper cause” to carry a handgun has been struck down. Are other gun-safety measures in peril?
By Isaac Chotiner
Comment
Will the G.O.P. Finally Make a Deal on Guns?
A bipartisan proposal offers Republicans the novel experience of running on a record of having acted to ease the gun crisis—if they can overcome their moral timidity.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin
Daily Comment
Looking for Reasons to Be Hopeful About Gun Legislation
Canada initiates more real progress and, in this country, something would be better than nothing.
By Adam Gopnik