Airs Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10pm and Sun, Oct 26 at 5pm


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Awarded the 2001 Society of Professional Journalists' award for best national television documentary, GunShots led to the passage of California's Gun Trafficking Prevention Act in 2002. Learn about other recent legislation on gun control and extend your knowledge of this controversial issue with these resources.


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The program producers, the Center for Investigative Reporting, continue their examination of the illicit cheap hand gun market in their October 23, 2003 Oakland Tribune article, Searching for Answers to Violent mix of Youth, Gangs and Guns. This new report revisits Oakland's youth gun violence problem and compares it to the situation in Salinas and Watsonville where one town has avoided major gun violence while the other is suffering an epidemic.


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GunShots investigates the largest gun trafficking case ever prosecuted in the Bay Area. Study the chronology of events which began with the sale of more than 1100 guns in the Bay Area to the eventual capture of the culprit and his accomplices.

 


Bay Window: GunShots is a co-production of KQED and
the Center for Investigative Reporting, in association with theRake.

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.

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