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Guns 8 Law & Order episodes

Gun trafficking, gun violence and the debate over gun laws.

  1. Season 1 · Episode 17

    Mushrooms

    Aired February 26, 1991 · Contract shooting / infant killed

    Gunfire through an apartment door kills a baby, and the investigation leads from a teenage shooter to the man who sent him.

  2. Season 2 · Episode 15

    Trust

    Aired February 11, 1992 · Teen shooting / murder

    A boy’s death in a deserted warehouse is called a gun accident, but a sealed juvenile record suggests otherwise.

  3. Season 3 · Episode 7

    Self-Defense

    Aired November 11, 1992 · Murder

    A Greek immigrant jeweler shoots two armed robbers, and Stone must decide whether chasing one into the street turned self-defense into murder.

  4. Season 4 · Episode 15

    Kids

    Aired February 9, 1994 · Murder

    A stray bullet kills a promising 14-year-old student, and the shooter turns out to be the teenage son of a retired detective who is an old friend of Briscoe’s.

  5. Season 9 · Episode 13

    Hunters

    Aired February 10, 1999 · Murder / bounty hunter shootings

    A paroled car thief is found shot in the trunk of a towed car, and the hunt for his fugitive brother-in-law pits the detectives against a pair of bounty hunters who leave two more people dead.

  6. Season 10 · Episode 1

    Gunshow

    Aired September 22, 1999 · Mass shooting / corporate liability

    A gunman with a converted machine pistol kills 15 people in Central Park, most of them women, and McCoy pursues both the shooter and the company that built the gun.

  7. Season 14 · Episode 24

    C.O.D.

    Aired May 19, 2004 · Murder / murder for hire

    A delivery driver is shot after dropping off an empty envelope, and Lennie Briscoe’s last case uncovers two women who agreed to kill each other’s husbands.

  8. Season 15 · Episode 5

    Gunplay

    Aired October 20, 2004 · Murder of police officers / murder for hire

    Two undercover gun detectives are executed during a buy, and the trail runs from the shooters to a website of undercover officers’ photos posted by a defense attorney whose stepson died in one of their earlier stings.

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