Black women, as a whole, seem entirely absent from the gun discussion.
(Washington Post) — About a hundred times a year, regulators strip gun dealers of their licenses for violations of federal law, an extreme step taken only when repeated infractions are deemed a threat to public safety. But a year-long Washington Post investigation documented about 60 cases since 2003 in which the businesses stayed open, often re-licensed […]
(Afro) — Fifteen fewer guns are on the streets of Washington, D.C., thanks to Got Guns?, a Metropolitan Police Department program that offers cash rewards to anonymous callers who give police tips on where they can find illegal firearms. According to the program’s records, obtained by the AFROthrough a Freedom of Information Act request, in its first […]
(Chicago Tribune) — As daylight faded, the kids on the corner of 77th Street and Coles Avenue joked and laughed, bumping and shoving each other in playful fights as older residents chatted with one another. One woman stepped forward and tapped a young boy on the shoulder. “Do you want to apologize?” said 63-year-old Hilda […]
(AJC) — A new report by a coalition of 500 U.S. mayors says Georgia is the top source of guns recovered in out-of-state crimes. The group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, includes several members from metro Atlanta. The organization used newly available gun trace data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and says […]