Mike Spies

New York

Senior Staff Writer at The Trace

Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone

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Red Flag Laws - The Trace

1 week ago | thetrace.org | Mike Spies |Chip Brownlee

$1 billion The dollars Congress earmarked for states to implement red flag laws in bipartisan gun reform legislation passed in 2022, after the Uvalde school shooting. 75 percent Suicides in Wyoming that involved guns in 2023; the state had the highest gun suicide rate in the country. 1,477 The minimum number of intimate partner homicides in 2021, the year for which data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is most recently available.
The Black Women at the Center of the Maternal Homicide Crisis

Dec 16, 2024 | thetrace.org | Fairriona Magee |Selin Thomas |Mike Spies

The Trace Adrienne Rodriguez held her head high as she walked to the front of the courtroom. On her right, her friends and relatives filled the three wooden pews in the back of the room. To her left, the rows on the defendant’s side sat empty. Rodriguez was at the DeKalb County Courthouse in Georgia on that muggy Wednesday morning in August to give a victim impact statement. The room was quiet as she took the stand.
In the Land of Firearm Suicide, Republicans Ban a Policy That Might Help

Oct 29, 2024 | thetrace.org | Mike Spies |Elijah de Castro

The Trace In Natrona County, Wyoming, the Platte River runs alongside Casper Mountain, with its thick forests and astonishing vistas, and every year the local coroner assembles data into a package called the “Suicide Report.” Its mere existence implies that an area of natural beauty and splendor is contending with an unnatural, unrelenting epidemic.
In the Land of Firearm Suicide, Republicans Are Banning a Policy That Might Help

Oct 29, 2024 | rollingstone.com | Mike Spies

October 29, 2024 Police look at a .357 Magnum handgun at the Archdiocese of Baltimore's gun buyback on Aug. 2, 2023.
The Trace Is Hiring a Director of Operations

Oct 29, 2024 | thetrace.org | Selin Thomas |Mike Spies

The Trace The Trace is looking for a Director of Operations to play a pivotal role in developing our organization’s structure and capacity to meet future opportunities and challenges. At our growing nonprofit media organization, we’re building the only team of journalists dedicated to reporting on gun violence. Our stories are making a difference, and our financial support has increased during these uncertain times.
A Gun Law the NRA Opposes Could Have Saved Its Employee’s Life

Oct 9, 2024 | rollingstone.com | Mike Spies

T HIS STORY WAS PUBLISHED in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to its newsletters. One week in November 2008, Dawn Williams-Stewart showed up for work at the headquarters of the National Rifle Association, in Fairfax, Virginia, with bruises on her face. A close friend in the financial services division, where Dawn worked, saw her crying. “Look at my mouth,” Dawn said, according to notes from a law enforcement investigation.
A Gun Law the NRA Opposes Could Have Saved Its Employee’s Life

Oct 9, 2024 | thetrace.org | Mike Spies |Selin Thomas

The Trace One week in November 2008, Dawn Williams-Stewart showed up for work at the headquarters of the National Rifle Association, in Fairfax, Virginia, with bruises on her face. A close friend in the financial services division, where Dawn worked, saw her crying. “Look at my mouth,” Dawn said, according to notes from a law enforcement investigation. Her husband, Antonio Stewart, had almost broken her jaw, she explained.
Red Flag laws, guns, gun violence

Aug 20, 2024 | homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Mike Spies

GUNSRed Flag Gun Laws Under FirePublished 20 August 2024Laws meant to keep firearms away from unstable people are under attack by Second Amendment radicals. An investigation by The Trace and Rolling Stone exposes the ugly campaign to undermine a bipartisan compromise to stop mass shootings. Susan Webb stood with her colleague on Parks Road. The Chesapeake Bay and the abandoned store with the sagging roof were behind them, the smell of discarded crab lingering in the air.
Red Flag laws, guns, gun violence

Aug 19, 2024 | homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Mike Spies

GUNSRed Flag Gun Laws Under FirePublished 19 August 2024Laws meant to keep firearms away from unstable people are under attack by Second Amendment radicals. An investigation by The Trace and Rolling Stone exposes the ugly campaign to undermine a bipartisan compromise to stop mass shootings. Susan Webb stood with her colleague on Parks Road. The Chesapeake Bay and the abandoned store with the sagging roof were behind them, the smell of discarded crab lingering in the air.
Gary, Indiana’s Historic Lawsuit Against Gunmakers Still Stands

Aug 15, 2024 | thetrace.org | Sunny Sone |Mike Spies

The TraceAn Indiana judge ruled that the City of Gary’s decades-old lawsuit against a suite of gunmakers can proceed despite a new state law designed to quash it. The law, passed by Indiana’s GOP supermajority this year, bans local governments from suing firearms manufacturers and sellers. In 1999, Gary’s mayor filed the suit against gunmakers that he believed were knowingly flooding his city with illegal firearms.