In recognition of National Gun Violence Awareness Day on Friday, June 5, 2026, the King County Regional Office of Gun Violence Prevention, Regional Peacekeepers Collective, Alliance for Gun Responsibility, and King County municipal partners are hosting free gun lockbox giveaways at eight locations across King County to raise awareness and provide useful resources to communities. Each event. We compared gun policy across the country, scoring every state on the strength of its gun laws and comparing it with its rate of gun violence. In states where elected officials have taken action to pass gun safety laws, fewer people die by gun violence. This piece by Scientific American's editors presents the case that simple gun laws can prevent future tragedies. Some editorials simply hurt to write. This is one. Understand where federal gun control laws stand today, what recent legislation changed, and how constitutional challenges and penalties apply. More gun control is not needed; education about guns and gun safety is needed to prevent accidental gun deaths. Some 95 percent of all U.S. gun owners believe that children should learn about gun safety. This Legislation regulated interstate and foreign commerce in firearms, including importation, prohibited persons , and licensing provisions. As of writing, the court’s latest word on the Second Amendment concerns the “who” of gun control: may the government permissibly restrict the ability of certain types of people to keep and bear arms? The court provided important guidance on that question in the 2024 case of United States v. Rahimi, but significant questions remain open. Here are some key findings about Americans’ views of gun ownership, gun policy and other subjects, drawn from Pew Research Center surveys. Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to summarize key facts about Americans’ relationships with guns. These are small, easily concealable devices can transform a semi-automatic firearm into an illegal machinegun in mere seconds, matching or surpassing the rate of fire of military-grade machineguns. Gun control refers to domestic and international attempts to regulate, and harmonize the regulation of, the private and industrial manufacture, trade, possession, use, and transport of a class of weapons typically identified as small arms.