The Crime Report’s Justice Digest collects the news you need to know across criminal justice in the United States and abroad. Our subscribers get the digest via email every weekday, highlighting breaking news, updates and research from hundreds of outlets curated by our editors. Subscribe now.
Where Do the Guns Come From?
The current gun debate has focused on background checks for legal firearms purchases. But gun violence is often committed by criminals who obtained their weapons illegally, according to podcasters who talked with youths and with researcher Philip J. Cook of Duke University about Chicago’s flourishing underground gun market.