Weapons

FILE - A semi-automatic rifle is displayed above shotguns at Rainier Arms, April 14, 2023, in Auburn, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

FILE - Palestinians line up for food distribution in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)

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)

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)