Everytown’s EveryShot AI Shows Why Gun Statistics Need Human Scrutiny

AmmoLand ^ | April 30, 2026 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

In March of 2025, Everytown, the activist organization created with considerable funding from multi-billionaire Michael Bloomberg, launched a website called EveryShot. EveryShot is an artificial intelligence tool using ChatGPT-40 mini to search for and list, according to Everytown, a collection of incidents in the 50 U.S. states involving shootings with a firearm or the brandishing of a firearm. Specifically excluded are BB guns, pellet guns, toy guns, or events that are fictional. A filter is used to exclude duplicates. The tool often shows multiple sources for a single event. The tool can flag events when there is uncertainty or discrepancies the flag brings the attention of a human for review. The tool updates the database twice a week.

In the Terms of Use, Everytown states the results can be “incomplete, inaccurate, offensive, or otherwise unpredictable”.  In this correspondent’s use of the tool, such a description is correct.

The tool has been developed by Everytown. Everytown is strongly biased toward greater political control over the ownership and use of firearms. It is not surprising there are no categories of firearms use under the categories of  “Intent” listed as s justified homicides.  There is no category of “Incident Type” listed as self-defense.

In “Relationship to Shooter” there are no categories for “gang member”, “criminal”, “drug dealer”, or even “stranger” or “attacker”. There are only Self, Friend, various family members, Intimate Partner, Bystander, and “Not Reported”.

The description of the sources limits them to occurring in “one of the 50 US states”; the District of Columbia, a United States federal territory, is included.

As an experiment, this correspondent chose to look at all the incidents reported under the categories  of Firearm Type – “Machine Gun” and Firearm Ownership – “Legal”. Such incidents are extremely rare. EveryShot reported six incidents from January 1 through

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KEYWORDS: ai; banglist; everyshot; everytown

[marktwain]

Using AI as a news source is asking to be lied to. Very unreliable.

[Carry_Okie]

I truly admire your through and placid approach to presenting the data.

Well done!

[EandH Dad]

AI continues the tradition of being able to put all the statistics end-to-end and never reaching a conclusion.