Gun Violence Prevention

Experts at Penn Medicine say firearm injuries and deaths occur due to improper gun storage in homes with children.

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court upheld state laws that prevent municipalities from enacting their own firearm regulations.

Philly’s Office of Public Safety expands the Group Violence Intervention Initiative. The program focuses on youth most at risk.

Temple becomes the first university to deploy ZeroEyes in Pennsylvania, New Jersey or Delaware.

Pushing Progress Philly expands its program to help young men build bright futures and keep them off the streets.

Local groups remembered the hundreds of people killed as a result of gun violence in Philadelphia and in its surrounding counties.

Uplift Center for Grieving Children will be awarded $50,000 by District Attorney Larry Krasner and the Philadelphia Foundation as part of its violence prevention microgrants.

Councilmember at-large Dr. Nina Ahmad introduced a resolution calling on state lawmakers to pass Senate Bill 200, which restricts the sale of large-capacity magazines.

Student filmmakers from North Philadelphia document gun violence in a new PBS documentary airing tonight on WHYY-TV 12.

Philly city leaders report a 40% drop in homicides with a gun. Advocates say, “It is not by accident.”

The executive order will improve active school shooter drills and tackle firearm threats of machine gun conversion devices, guns without serial numbers and ghost guns.

The cinematic journey documents one woman’s personal crusade to turn tragedy into positive action.

The blueprint plan comes from suggestions offered at a daylong event earlier this year.

Organizations led by millennials and Gen-Z Philadelphians are now turning their attention toward Philly’s next mayor for more support.

A group of Philly teens is fighting for juvenile justice reform. Their demands reveal cracks in a system they say is allowing gun violence to thrive.