The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "tracking guns" ...
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Tracking guns:How to investigate gun dealers and track murder weapons
Grimaldi, 2010 IRE award winner, provides the PowerPoint he used at this year's conference. Get inside information on how he and his team tracked down guns and the gun dealers who sold them.
Tags: gun dealers; Washington Post; The Hidden Life of Guns;
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The Hidden Life of Guns
Grimaldi gives day by day instructions on how to track guns, and who sold those guns. He gives tips on how to contact pro-gun people and anti-gun people, in order to keep your story a-political.
Tags: guns; gun lobbyists; pro-gun; anti-gun; tracking guns; gun dealers
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Tracking Down Guns
This tipsheet provides tips every reporter needs to know in order to do a story concerning guns and their sales history.
Tags: guns; crime; law enforcement; CAR