In this July 10, 2017, photo, Alicia Kelley poses for a portrait in Decatur, Ga., while checking the chamber on her handgun. Kelley is a 36-year-old banker who lives in Buford, Ga. She's among the ranks of the nation's black women who own firearms. "I fell in love with shooting at the range," she says. When she and her husband bought a home, they decided to buy a firearm for protection. "As times have changed, it's good to have home protection," she said of violence and the tension in today's unpredictable political climate. "It's so unpredictable. People used to hide behind the computer but now they're coming out. You don't know who you're going to run into. Nowadays people are acting before they're thinking." (AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane)
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