When America’s Teddy Bear was installed at Windows on Franklin, it consisted of 534 bullets. The source of this number comes from the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) database, and it includes data for school shootings* that took place between December 2012 – March 2022.
However, this number changed on May 24 when an 18-year-old adolescent entered a public school in Uvalde, TX, opened fire with a recently purchased AR-15 rifle, and killed 19 children and 2 teachers.
The number of bullets on America’s Teddy Bear sadly increased to 555, and 21 new bullets were labeled with the names of the victims.