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24/7 Wall St. Insights Elder fraud in 2023 increased by 14% from 2022, according to FBI data In some states, the problem seems to be significantly more prevalent Former congressman George Santos...
Nearly topping 60 million between 2020 and 2022, gun sales in the U.S. hit all-time highs during the COVID-19 pandemic. While an exact tally does not exist, the latest estimates indicate there now...
American gun culture has evolved considerably in recent decades. The share of gun owners who kept a firearm primarily for hunting fell from 49% to 32% between 1999 and 2023, according to survey data...
The FBI conducted over 2.2 million firearm background checks in April alone. While background checks do not correspond one to one with gun sales, they remain the best proxy of gun sales, and if...
Gun sales have been on the decline so far in 2024, at least based on the FBI’s firearm background checks figures. Those figures, however, may soon change as the “gun show loophole” is closed....
For much of the last four decades, rates of deadly violence have been trending downward in the United States. Between the early 1990s and the mid-2010s, the U.S. murder rate fell by more than 50% —...
The number of reported homicides in the U.S. surged by a record-breaking 30% in 2020, topping 20,000 for the first time since 1995. When incidents of deadly violence jump, there is rarely only one...
The number of reported homicides in the U.S. surged by a record-breaking 30% in 2020, topping 20,000 for the first time since 1995. When incidents of deadly violence jump, there is rarely only one...
The number of reported homicides in the U.S. surged by a record-breaking 30% in 2020, topping 20,000 for the first time since 1995. When incidents of deadly violence jump, there is rarely only one...
The number of reported homicides in the U.S. surged by a record-breaking 30% in 2020, topping 20,000 for the first time since 1995. When incidents of deadly violence jump, there is rarely only one...
The number of reported homicides in the U.S. surged by a record-breaking 30% in 2020, topping 20,000 for the first time since 1995. When incidents of deadly violence jump, there is rarely only one...