Lance Cpl. Ben Fouse (left) and Petty Officer 3rd Class Thomas Warrington (right) shoot AR-15s at targets in the Goodyear desert on Dec. 20, 2015. The two met in grade school and were on leave during the holidays. In the United States Marine Corps, Lance Cpl. Fouse works as a small arms repair technician.
Arizona Ranger Firearms Training Officer Milan Eaton (left) watches Arizona Ranger and Vietnam veteran Dan Cook (right) as he qualifies his second handgun during the Arizona Rangers Phoenix Company pistol qualification on Jan. 23, 2016, at Ben Avery Shooting Facility in Phoenix, Arizona. The qualification requires multiple drills with the handgun to insure the ranger can conceal and use the pistol safely.
Det. Joshua Mesquita of Phoenix Police's Gang Enforcement Unit makes a call while picking up snacks at a gas station. Mesquita is a father of two daughters with another on the way and has been in his unit for just under a year and a half.
Mike Wrex, 73, looks through a firearm price guidebook to help a friend determine the value of a gun. Wrex keeps a gun under a cushion of the sofa he sits on.
Students at Desert Shadows Middle School pretend to be dead in the grass at Sereno Park during the annual 7th-grade reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg on Nov. 17, 2016. Lying next to them are the homemade wooden guns required for their class grade.
Lance Cpl. Ben Fouse shoots a Glock 17 at targets in the Goodyear desert on Dec. 20, 2015. On leave and in the desert with friends, he brings chicken tenders, a first-aid kit, multiple guns and enough ammo to shoot for two hours. In the darkness, they wear glow sticks on their vests to know each other’s locations.
Hundreds gather for a candlelight vigil in Phoenix, Arizona, following the shooting in which 49 people were killed and 53 were injured at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016. The shooting was called a terrorist attack and hate crime.
A man shoots targets at the Scottsdale Gun Club on April 18, 2016, in Scottsdale, Arizona. In the front of the store, the 14-year-old gun club sells guns and gear, and in the back, there are 32 indoor 25-yard shooting lanes. The club also holds courses on concealed weapons permits, self defense and shooting.
Maria Armenta (center) cries during Arizonans for Gun Safety’s talk with her classroom behavior strategies class at Arizona State University. When Armenta was a child, her best friend was walking home from school without her one day and was shot in the neck during a drive-by shooting in Maryville — shortly after Armenta's brother was almost shot in a drive by while she was babysitting him.
Tamika Holmes puts her hand over her face as she cries on a hike at South Mountain on April 23, 2016, in Phoenix, Arizona. Three of her five children were shot between January and June 2015 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, while she was living in Phoenix. She is holding the photos of the two children who died from gunshot wounds – the third recovered. She brings the photos to the mountains so she can pray for and remember Jahara Kennedy, 20, and Rahkei Washington, 19. The mountains echo with gunshots from the nearby gun range, a sound Holmes has come to ignore.
Joe Proctor lifts up his shirt to show his tattoos of guns that read “Sanguine” on the grips at the Rio Salado Sportsman’s Club on Jan. 30, 2016, in Mesa, Arizona. His worn-down belt features the Virgin Mary, and he carries an unloaded gun on one hip with its bullets on the other.
Andrew Harris demonstrates with a finger gun what he will do with the two guns propped against his front door if an intruder breaks into his house on March 22, 2016. Because he owns so many guns and hides them different places, sometimes he loses them until he finds his own hiding place.
GJB lays out his guns on his covered pool table in his home. He has been collecting since the age of 12 and has since accumulated between 60 and 80 guns, worth more than $120,000. The guns are held in a large safe except for three unloaded on his fireplace and one loaded near his bed. (Subject is unnamed for security reasons.)
Lance Cpl. Ben Fouse (left) and Petty Officer 3rd Class Thomas Warrington (right) prepare their guns to shoot at targets in the Goodyear desert on Dec. 18, 2015. The two were trained in gun safety and take every precaution to ensure their proper use. That day, they brought 11 guns to shoot.
Blake Wooldrige (right) points a toy gun at his younger brother, Nicholas Wooldrige, after his mother told him not to, on Allen Street in Tombstone, Ariz., on April 9, 2016.