Gun Nation

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| director = Zed Nelson

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| editing = Noah Payne Frank

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| released = {{film date|2016|09|16|df=y}}

| runtime = 30 minutes

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Gun Nation is a 2016 documentary film directed and produced by British photographer and filmmaker Zed Nelson. The film explores issues surrounding gun ownership, gun violence, and gun culture in the United States and marks 18 years since the director's award-winning photography book of the same name.{{Cite web|url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/watch-gun-nation-documentary-asks-why-americas-love-affair-with-guns-persists/|title=Watch: Gun Nation documentary asks why America's love affair with guns persists|last=Wray|first=James|date=16 September 2016|website=Monsters and Critics|language=en-US|access-date=17 September 2016|archive-date=17 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117063902/https://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/watch-gun-nation-documentary-asks-why-americas-love-affair-with-guns-persists/|url-status=dead}}{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/3790906/gun-nation-revisited-zed-nelsons-photographs-of-american-gun-culture/|title=Gun Nation Revisited: Zed Nelson's Photographs of American Gun Culture|last=Nelson|first=Zed|date=17 August 2012|magazine=Time |access-date=17 September 2016}} It was commissioned by The Guardian and by the Bertha Foundation, executive produced by Charlie Phillips and released online on 16 September 2016.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2016/sep/16/gun-nation-a-journey-to-the-heart-of-americas-gun-culture-video|title=Gun nation: a journey to the heart of America's gun culture – video|last1=Nelson|first1=Zed|date=16 September 2016|last2=Phillips|first2=Charlie|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|last3=Payne-Frank|first3=Noah|last4=Nelson|first4=Zed|last5=Phillips|first5=Charlie|last6=Payne-Frank|first6=Noah|access-date=17 September 2016}} The film was the first production to be screened in the documentary section of The Guardian.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-office/2016/sep/16/the-guardian-relaunches-guardian-documentaries|title=The Guardian relaunches Guardian documentaries|date=16 September 2016|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=17 September 2016}}{{Cite web|url=http://berthafoundation.org/bejust/?p=1508|title=Guardian Bertha Documentary Partnership|last=Baer Chan|first=Alexandra|date=16 September 2016|website=Bertha Foundation Blog|access-date=17 September 2016}}