BRIDGEVIEW, Ill.—It’s been an interesting year for Joseph Stanford to take over a gun range business near Chicago.
He bought a struggling facility in Bridgeview, about 15 miles southwest of Chicago, in January 2020. First, the pandemic hit, closing him down; then, a wave of violence hit Chicago. The city ended the year with about 4,000 shooting victims, up from about 2,600 from a year earlier.
