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Since the start of 2016 the use of rifles in Chicago gang shootings has spread across the South and Southwest sides. Rifles have changed not only how gangs engage each other, but how residents try to live with them and how police fight them.

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» Read the story: More Chicago gangs arming themselves with rifles as alliances spread conflict

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