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is generally lawful with a state permit, but the picture at protests is more complicated: federal and state actors can and have asserted limits, and Minnesota law includes provisions that allow author...
A clear national rule does not exist: there is no federal ban on and states approach the issue through a patchwork of laws that sometimes ban guns from capitol grounds, specified “sensitive places,” o...
A single, definitive list of states that bar firearms at political demonstrations or across entire capitol grounds does not exist in the provided reporting; instead, advocacy groups, think‑tanks and n...
Available sources consistently show that Black Americans experience much higher rates of gun homicide and gun-related victimization than non‑Hispanic white Americans—for example, analyses report Black...
A patchwork of state laws — not a single federal ban — governs : a small number of states have statutes that explicitly forbid carrying firearms at parades, demonstrations, or marching with arms, whil...
whether firearms may be carried at protests, and a patchwork of statutes, court rulings, and local rules yields conflicting totals and rules: one advocacy tracker counts 16 states that bar concealed o...
Researchers and trackers disagree on whether gang-related "gang bang" shootings are counted as mass shootings: some major datasets exclude gang- or felony-motivated incidents while others include them...
Two provided analyses do not present a direct, numerical comparison of gun ownership between Democrats and Republicans; they focus instead on partisan differences in support for gun-control policies a...
Research is mixed but leans toward stricter gun regulations being associated with lower firearm deaths and some reductions in violent crime in many studies; authoritative reviews (RAND, Johns Hopkins)...
A complete, per-capita accounting of gun-related deaths exists in international datasets but cannot be sensibly printed in full here; authoritative compilations include the UNODC-derived Our World in ...
The U.S. experiences roughly 46,000–47,000 firearm deaths annually in recent years, which translates to about 13–14 gun deaths per 100,000 people on a national, per‑capita basis (13.7 per 100,000 in 2...
The sharpest available analyses show that Washington, D.C. had the highest age‑adjusted firearm homicide rate in recent comparative data (about 14.4 per 100,000), while Wyoming led the nation in firea...
Statista’s 2024 state ranking lists Mississippi as having the highest gun‑violence rate per 100,000 residents (29.7), followed by Louisiana (28.2); Statista’s summary also lists New Mexico, Alabama an...
Available sources show a range of totals for 2024 U.S. firearm deaths (roughly 31,000–45,000 depending on dataset and whether suicides are included) and consistently report that the majority of firear...
Available reporting and advocacy data show transgender people in the U.S. experience disproportionately high rates of some forms of violence — especially intimate-partner abuse, hate-motivated inciden...
States governed by Democratic majorities generally have —including universal background checks, permitting regimes, assault-weapons restrictions, and broader use of extreme risk (red flag) laws—while ...
Available international rankings show several small, high‑income countries with extremely low firearm death rates; among countries commonly cited for the lowest gun‑death rates are Singapore and sever...
Law enforcement did seize firearms and other weapons connected to the January 6, 2021, attack — while some early statements and social posts claimed no guns were taken, court filings and reporting doc...
Proud Boys members have been tied to a wide range of violent incidents, civil judgments and criminal convictions — most prominently convictions for seditious conspiracy and related crimes for roles in...
experiences roughly 45,000–48,000 gun-related deaths per year in recent reporting, with counting about 46,728–46,728 fatalities in 2023 and provisional estimates placing 2024 lower at roughly 44,400 ....