The ATF says it received approximately 45,000 reports of suspected ghost guns recovered by police in the five years between 2016 and 2021. In 2022, that number was more than 25,000.

Frost campaigned as a survivor of gun violence, having fled for his life along with dozens of other people after someone started firing during a Halloween celebration in downtown Orlando in 2016.

Frost and Clark also met with survivors of gun violence, including Tuwanan Ware, whose son was fatally shot early last year. Since then, she and Charlotte Davis, a community activist whose son was ...