A recent report estimated that Americans bought close to 60 million guns during the pandemic. In the three years beginning in 2020, at least 30 million gun-related background checks were conducted in the United…
A federal judge in Washington state refused this week a request to overturn a new law that bans the manufacturing or selling of assault-style semi-automatic rifles. The law is one of three signed into…
The history of the U.S. housing market has been marked by periods of rampant building and of lulls, even as the population has expanded relatively steadily. Even with this recent increase, new home construction…
According to figures just published by the The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, an estimated 42,939 Americans died in motor vehicle traffic crashes. That figure is just shy of last year’s 42,939, which was…
Oregon appears to be on the brink of becoming the latest state to introduce stricter gun control measures in the wake of the nation’s seemingly-endless stream of mass shootings. The state House of Representatives…
The Oregon House of Representatives passed this week a gun control package, which would increase the minimum age to buy most guns to 21 — with the exception of some hunting rifles — and…
An estimated 46% of Americans have a gun in their home or elsewhere on their property, according to a recent poll. This figure, part of an annual survey conducted by polling agency Gallup, has…
Just one year after surpassing $2 trillion for the first time, global military expenditure reached a staggering $2.24 trillion in 2022, according to a report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute released today.…
The globe’s population passed 8 billion last year, according to the United Nations, just 11 years after reaching 7 billion. The U.N. projects continued global population expansion in the millions each year, crossing the…
Through the first three months of 2023, roughly 8.1 million firearm background checks were conducted in the United States, according to data compiled by the FBI. That figure is more or less in line…
Last month, President Biden signed a new executive order designed to increase the likelihood that background checks be initiated before guns are sold in the United States. And though many polls indicate that the…
An annual gun control law scorecard published by the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence rated the majority of states F for their gun control policies. The report gave only two states, California…
Tennessee continues to reel from the school shooting last week that left three children and three faculty dead. That event was just the latest mass killing in the United States – an event which…
President Joe Biden signed on Tuesday a new executive order intended to increase the likelihood a background check is conducted before the sale of guns in the United States. Though many polls show that…
Through the first two months of 2023, roughly 5.1 million firearm background checks were conducted in the United States, according to data compiled by the FBI. That figure represents a slight increase compared to…
Colorado state legislature earlier this month had the first hearing of a bill that, if passed, will require a three-day waiting period for the purchase of a firearm in the state. The bill, part…
With four separate incidents across the country this past Sunday, the United States counted 102 mass shootings so far this year, the fastest it has reached that figure since the Gun Violence Archive began…
Through the first nine months of last year, an estimated 31,785 Americans died in driving accidents. This figures come from the most recent National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data, released this January. The country…
About 2.6 million firearm background checks were initiated in the United States this January, according to data compiled by the FBI, a slight increase from January 2022, when 2.5 million checks were conducted. Background…
A shooting at Michigan State University this week left three students dead and five injured. The incident, only the latest in the nation’s seemingly endless stream of large-scale gun violence, prompted Michigan State Senate…
