Chip Brownlee

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Reporter Reporter Chip is a reporter at The Trace covering federal policy related to violence prevention and firearms. He is also the author of The Trajectory newsletter, which spotlights the people, policies, and programs grappling with America’s gun violence crisis. Before joining The Trace as an investigative fellow in June 2020, Chip worked as a reporter and the editor-in-chief of his collegiate newspaper, .

3 weeks ago | thetrace.org | Chip Brownlee

The Trace The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked Mexico’s lawsuit against American gunmakers. The June 5 decision is likely to mark the end of a yearslong legal battle in which Mexico attempted to hold American gunmakers accountable for violence committed within its borders. The justices unanimously ruled that a federal law named the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, or PLCAA, shields the gunmakers from liability.

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The Trace The Supreme Court’s landmark 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen upended Second Amendment law by mandating that modern gun restrictions align with historical firearms regulations. Since Bruen, reports The Trace’s Chip Brownlee, judges are not so much arbiters of modern safety as reluctant antiquarians, tasked with finding 18th- or 19th-century parallels for today’s gun laws.

3 weeks ago | thetrace.org | Chip Brownlee

The Trace The Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in New York Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen required modern gun laws to correspond with the nation’s “history and tradition” of firearm regulation. As part of his series “The Bruen Era,” Trace reporter Chip Brownlee has reported on how the decision has led to new research revealing parallels between today’s gun laws and those enacted more than a century ago. Below is a brief timeline of significant events in American gun history.

3 weeks ago | slate.com | Chip Brownlee

This story was published in partnership with the Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletter here. On Jan. 29, in a federal courtroom in Mississippi, U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves delivered a ruling that just a few years ago would have been unthinkable: He found the decades-old federal ban on machine guns unconstitutional.