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 "gun dealers" ...
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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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How to investigate gun dealers--PowerPoint
Use this PowerPoint with Poston's tipsheet (How to investigate gun dealers), to get the most information and knowledge about gun dealers.
Tags: guns; gun dealers; investigations
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The Hidden Life of Guns
In this tipsheet, Grimaldi shares how The Washington Post reported the story, The Hidden Life of Guns, which won the 2010 IRE FOI Award. He provides a day-by-day account of the series of events the unfolded as the reporting took place. He also includes a source list of important interest groups.
Tags: firearms; weapons; NRA; ATF; gun violence; gun crimes; gun dealers
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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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How to investigate gun dealers
Poston, a 2009 IRE award winner, gives great tips on how to keep on the trail of the ATF, as well as which databases to search for the best information.