An illustration of white topographic lines with guns at the peaks, set on a blue background.
Erik Carter for The Trace.

About the Gun Violence Data Hub

The Gun Violence Data Hub is an initiative launched by The Trace in fall 2024. It aims to increase the accessibility and use of accurate data on gun violence.

Our Team

The Hub provides three main features to accomplish its aim:

  1. A help desk to field gun violence related inquiries from journalists and researchers
  2. A collection of resources for newsrooms to establish best practices and foundational knowledge about gun violence in the US
  3. COMING SOON! A data library of clean, contextualized, and well documented datasets related to gun violence.

The Hub is primarily a news-gathering enterprise composed of journalists and researchers, and it draws heavily from the existing knowledge of staffers at The Trace. We do occasionally collaborate with researchers in academia or private research institutions, but maintain strict editorial standards and independence. You can read more about that and our financial transparency here.

If you’d like to get in touch, please email [email protected].