It was a sweltering afternoon at a Walmart near Traverse City, Michigan. Families moved up and down the aisles, oblivious to the danger looming nearby—until chaos erupted. In seconds, 11 people went ...

A new peer-reviewed study is stirring up an old argument with fresh numbers: most people who have access to firearms have never used one defensively. But that headline doesn’t tell the whole story—and ...

English's estimate of a 32% individual adult gun ownership rates is consistent with other surveys. His estimates of defensive gun uses (DGUs) — 1.67 million times a year, with a shot fired in about ...