About EveryShot
EveryShot is a product of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund and was released in March, 2025. The tool, which leverages advanced AI technology, is currently in version 1.0. The site will undergo continuous improvements over time in order to enhance its capabilities and the user experience.
How do we gather this information?
Everytown collects news articles about gun violence from thousands of newspapers, local television stations, and other news providers using a news aggregation service. We then use AI to summarize the articles and group them into types of shooting incidents. Read more in our Methodology.
What sources does EveryShot use?
The sources for EveryShot are all US news outlets. This includes national, state, and local newspapers; television news websites; national news networks; information from tweets that track gun violence; and any other news source with articles about gun violence.
Media articles do not capture every shooting nor do they capture every known detail of a shooting. Some incidents go unreported, and some communities and geographic areas of the country have limited or no media outlets reporting on local issues. Currently, official government sources on gun deaths and injuries provide data with a lag of one to three years. As a result, EveryShot should not be treated as a fully comprehensive report or presentation of all such incidents occurring in the United States.
Please note that media outlets may update or remove articles over time, which may result in broken or inaccessible hyperlinks. We recommend searching the publication’s website if a linked article is no longer available.
Is this process fully automated?
EveryShot employs a two-step process. Article collection and analysis are fully automated using a news aggregation service followed by article analysis using ChatGPT 4o mini and ChatGPT 4o, and uses these tools to flag articles for further review. Everytown subsequently implements a human review process for incidents that have been flagged. Following this human review, the curated results are made available via the EveryShot tool.
How often is EveryShot updated?
EveryShot is updated twice per calendar week, once early in the week to add weekend news incidents and once later in the week to update with incidents that occurred over the course of the week.
How were the filters and variables identified?
EveryShot enables users to sort data by nearly 100 variables and by combinations of these variables. The goal is to provide as much information as is available via public news sources on every shooting for the most detailed understanding of our gun violence epidemic and to provide data that allow users to identify patterns.
Why do incidents start in January 2024?
EveryShot launched on March 26, 2025. In order to provide comparison data, Everytown collected one year of historical data beginning with January 2024.
How should I cite EveryShot?
Please use this sample citation format:
EveryShot. Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund. Accessed [date]. https://www.everytownresearch.org/labs/everyshot.
What actions can I take to reduce gun violence?
Visit everytownresearch.org to learn more about the issues impacting your community and find ways to get involved to help prevent gun violence.
Who can I contact if I have a question, suggestion, or see an error?
If you have suggestions, see an error or have additional information about a shooting, please let us know! [email protected].
Terms of Use
Certain features of EveryShot utilize and incorporate artificial intelligence, machine learning, and related technologies, including without limitation via features and functionalities licensed from or otherwise provided by third parties. Users of EveryShot acknowledge that AI is a new and developing technology, and that the outputs generated by AI features of EveryShot may be incomplete, inaccurate, offensive, or otherwise unpredictable. Everytown expressly and specifically disclaims any liability, responsibility, and/or guarantee regarding the outputs or processes of AI features on EveryShot. Use of EveryShot is entirely at the user’s own risk.
