Background Information and Resources

June 1997 Episode: A report on cheap handguns, their manufacturers, and the illicit handgun market.

Center for Investigative Reporting: Gun Violence

Co-producer of the June 1997 PBS Show

Pacific Center for Violence Prevention

A project of the Trauma Foundation, located at San Francisco General Hospital

The Family Education Network

Features articles on guns and children.

California Gun Control Organizations

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer's Junk Gun Web Site

This site includes the text from U.S. Senate Bill 1654 ("The Junk Gun Violence Protection Act"), sponsored by Senator Barbara Boxer. This bill was introduced in March, 1996.

National Gun Control Organizations

Center to Prevent Handgun Violence

The Center to Prevent Handgun Violence (CPHV) is an HCI "educational" spin-off that portrays firearms and their ownership as inherently dangerous. Straight Talk About Risks (S.T.A.R.), CPHV's politically-based anti-gun curriculum targets schoolchildren aged pre-K through 12th grade.

Violence Policy Center

The Violence Policy Center (VPC) is at the forefront of those working to stem the tide of firearms violence engulfing our nation. The VPC is a national 501(c)(3) educational foundation working to move beyond the popular but narrow perception of firearms violence as solely a crime issue to place it in its proper perspective: a widespread public health problem of which crime is merely the most recognized aspect.