SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The number of people stopped from buying guns through the U.S. background check system hit an all-time high of more than 300,000 last year amid a surge of firearm sales, ...

This article is a collaboration between FiveThirtyEight and The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on gun violence. In March 2020, as the first COVID-19 outbreaks rippled across the U.S., Americans ...

Gun sales in the United States reached a record level last year, with the biggest increases in background checks for firearms overlapping with months of social and political unrest, according to ...

Like many other states throughout the country, there was a record-setting surge in gun sales in Tennessee last year, with newly released data from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation revealing that ...

Nearly 20,000 people died from gun violence during the pandemic. This report is a part of "Rethinking Gun Violence," an ABC News series examining the level of gun violence in the U.S. -- and what can ...

FARMERS BRANCH, Texas — Area gun stores and ranges in the Dallas-Fort Worth area continue to face ammunition shortages as manufacturers struggle to keep up with demand, fueled by record gun sales in ...

NEWTOWN — In a year of unrelenting crisis and uncertainty, gun-sale activity across America has already set a record, with nearly a full month left on the 2020 calendar. And for the first time since ...

Gun sales in Massachusetts - a state with historically low firearm ownership - have skyrocketed since 2020, due in-part to people wanting to arm themselves out of fear, according to a new report. Many ...

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Americans bought about 19.9 million firearms last year, down 12.5% from 2020, according to one industry estimate — but 2021 was still the industry’s second-busiest year on record, as politics and ...