U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) introduced bicameral legislation to implement instant universal background checks for the sale of gun ammunition.

Nearly 40,000 people in the United States died by guns last year, marking the highest number of gun deaths in 38 years, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s WONDER database.

Gun violence is preventable if you know the signs, but can be easy to miss if you don’t know what to look for.

Amnesty International has launched a new smartphone application to help document firearm use in Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympic games.  

A new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds that Americans are far more concerned about terrorism than gun violence. 

The Chicago murder rate dropped to the lowest it has been since 1965, but city officials aren't fully satisfied. Shootings were also down by about 24 percent, and reports of overall crime have dropped by about 16 percent. However, Chicago’s 2013 death toll remains higher than those in New York and Los Angeles.

California continues to rank best in the nation for strong gun reform measures, according to a new state analysis by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

It costs more than $2 billion every year in hospital charges to treat victims of firearms-related injuries, according to a study released at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA).

Forty-eight percent of Americans blame the mental health system “a great deal” for mass shootings in the U.S., unchanged from January 2011, according to a new Gallup poll.