Garen J. Wintemute is an emergency medicine physician at UC Davis Medical Center, in the US state of California, where he is the director of the Violence Prevention Research Program.
[1] He conducts research in the fields of injury epidemiology and the prevention of firearm violence.
[6][1] In 1987, he published a study on accidental gun deaths among children in California, of which 88 occurred between 1977 and 1983.
[7] At a press conference to announce the study's results, multiple real guns like those involved in the accidental deaths were placed next to toy lookalikes; few of the reporters in attendance could tell them apart.
[8] His research on Saturday night special handguns, especially a 1994 study he published entitled "Ring of Fire", has been credited as the main reason for the California government's efforts to impose strict regulations on them.