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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
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Gun Rights Supporters Could Accept Significant Regulations, Per Industry’s Research
After Parkland, the gun industry’s research found that people with “positive feelings” about gun ownership were open to common reform arguments
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Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, the Gun Industry’s Own Research Reveals
The firearms industry has always argued that arming the public makes them feel safer — its own research shows that’s not true
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White, Legally Armed, and Primed for Political Violence
Ian Rogers was convinced it was up to him to save America. The gun industry’s sales tactics — playing up paranoia and glorifying combat — may be creating a pipeline of extremists willing to open fire
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Republicans Ban a Policy That Might Solve Their States’ Suicide Crises
In states with some of the highest rates of firearm suicide, lawmakers have blocked red-flag laws.
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A Gun Law the NRA Opposes Could Have Saved Its Employee’s Life
The NRA previously supported red-flag gun laws, which are meant to protect people like Dawn, an NRA staffer who was killed by her husband
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How Second Amendment Radicals Are Attacking Laws Meant to Keep Firearms Out of the Wrong Hands
An investigation by The Trace and Rolling Stone exposes the ugly campaign to undermine a bipartisan compromise to stop mass shootings
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When the NRA Calls the Shots: Inside the 'Reasonable Killing' of a 13-Year-Old Boy
A child is gunned down for stealing change from a parked car – here's what justice looks like when "stand your ground" is the law of the land
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