Guns

Michael Williams sits for an interview in his South Side Chicago home, July 27, 2021, after spending nearly a year in jail as a suspect in a May 2020 killing. Prosecutors had used ShotsSpotter evidence to build their case against Williams. “I kept trying to figure out, how can they get away with using the technology like that against me?” he asked. “That’s not fair.” His case was eventually dismissed when prosecutors said they had insufficient evidence. (AP Photo / Charles Rex Arbogast)

FILE - In this Sunday, March 15, 2020, file photo, people wait in line People wait to enter a gun store in Culver City, Calif., March 15, 2020. FBI data released to the AP reveals that background checks blocked nearly twice as many gun sales in 2020 as in the year before, largely tracking with the record-setting surge in sales that took hold along with the coronavirus pandemic and has continued into this year. Nearly half the denied sales were for people with felony convictions.After a year of pandemic lockdowns, mass shootings are back, but the guns never went away. As the U.S. inches toward a post-pandemic future, guns are arguably more present in the American psyche and more deeply embedded in American discourse than ever before. The past year's anxiety and loss fueled a rise in gun ownership across political and socio-economic lines. (AP Photo / Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

A photo illustration combines a defendant’s letter to a judge in the case of weapons he stole from a Massachusetts armory and an evidence photo of an M4 carbine rifle. In the first public accounting of its kind in decades, an AP investigation has found that at least 1,900 U.S. military firearms were lost or stolen during the 2010s, with some resurfacing in violent crimes. AP’s total is an undercount of a problem some armed services have downplayed. (AP Illustration / Nat Castañeda)

In this March 2, 2018 photo, a group of JROTC shooters compete in the prone position during the 2018 New Mexico Junior Olympic Qualifier for sport and precision air rifles at Cibola High School in Albuquerque, N.M., for the chance to compete at the National Junior Olympic Championships in Ohio in June. The National Rifle Association has given more than $7 million in grants to hundreds of U.S. schools in recent years, typically used for JROTC programs, including $126,000 given to Albuquerque schools. (Marla Brose/Albuquerque Journal via AP)

Douglas Haig takes questions from reporters at a news conference in Chandler, Ariz., Feb. 2, 2018. Haig, a 55-year-old aerospace engineer who sold ammunition as a hobby for about 25 years, said he lawfully sold ammunition to Stephen Paddock, the gunman who killed 58 people and injured hundreds more in the Las Vegas shooting of Oct. 1, 2017. Haig has since been charged with illegally manufacturing and selling armor-piercing ammunition to Paddock. (AP Photo / Brian Skoloff)

A woman sits on a curb at the scene of a shooting outside of a music festival along the Las Vegas Strip, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, in Las Vegas. Multiple victims were being transported to hospitals after a shooting late Sunday at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. (AP Photo/John Locher)