Everytown's Everyshot AI tool: Use Extreme
Caution. Many Limitations and Inaccuracies

In March of 2026, Everytown, the activist organization created with the help of considerable funds by Multi - billionaire Michael Bloomberg, place a website online 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 where there was a shooting involving a firearm or gun or if a gun or firearm was brandished. Specifically excluded a BB guns, pellet guns, toy guns or events which 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", pimp, "drug dealer" or even "stranger" or "attacker". There are only Self, Friend, various family members, Intimate Partner, Bystander and "Not Reported". …