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

Summary

This article critically analyzes Everytown's EveryShot AI tool, launched in March 2025, which purports to track shooting incidents nationwide. The author demonstrates the tool's significant biases and inaccuracies, particularly in its categorization of 'machine guns' and its omission of categories for self-defense or justified homicides. An experiment revealed six specific incidents between January and April 2026 where EveryShot misidentified illegally possessed firearms, including 'Glock switches' and semi-automatic replicas, as legal machine guns.