Champe Barton

Champe Barton is a reporter at The Trace, a nonprofit news site that focuses on guns and gun violence in America. He primarily covers urban gun violence and the gun industry.

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Xenophobic Violence?

One store owner said he sold out of Glocks, and that customers tried to buy his entire inventory of ammo branded for home defense: “They think it’s Costco.”

Champe Barton | Published Mar 06, 2020