KQED and The Center for Investigative Reporting in association with theRake, present GunShots, a one-hour television documentary examining the illicit gun market, gun violence and safety in our neighborhoods. GunShots investigates the largest gun trafficking case in the Bay Area. It also takes a look at citizens and law enforcement officials who are making an effort to stop the gun violence that has infected California and the nation.

GunShots also examines current federal efforts to limit gun trafficking. The program also investigates a federal gun tracing program begun in 1996 that emphasizes finding the sources of crime guns and preventing criminals from obtaining guns.

GunShots originally aired on KQED in Northern California on May 4, 2001, with a rebroadcast on November 2. Funding for GunShots is provided by the Funders Collaborative and Tides Foundation, the Members of KQED, the KQED Campaign for the Future Program Venture Fund with major funding provided by the James Irvine Foundation, partners in building a better California.

Special support provided by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has allowed KQED and CIR to continue their reporting on gun trafficking and violence on national PBS, The Nation and the Oakland Tribune.

Series funding for Bay Window is provided by the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation.