This research aimed to examine the relationship between habitual violence in the media, the presence of weapons focus and correctly remembered information about a violent photograph in order to explore the possible effect that desensitization can have on eyewitness testimony. Undergraduate psychology students (N=32) completed a questionnaire regarding their violent media consumption habits before looking for four seconds at a photograph depicting a man threatening a woman with a gun. Average eye fixation time was measured using an eye tracker, and participants' photograph memory was measured using a questionnaire to determine what contextual details they could remember. Due to problems with the calibration of the eye tracker, the data collected was unreadable and therefore the two variables were analyzed. Habitual exposure to media violence is positively correlated with correct responses to the context questionnaire (p < .01), suggesting that there is a relationship between higher levels of violent media consumption and the amount of contextual information remembered about a photograph violent. consumption of violence in the media has a harmful effect has been extensively studied, and the American Academy of Pediatrics recognizes exposure to violence in the media, including television, movies, music, and video games, as a significant health risk for children and adolescents (Committee on Public Education, 2001). It has been quite well documented in our society that children become "purposeful television viewers" at the age of three (Murray, 2008) and by the age of sixteen, the average child has witnessed more than 20,000 murders on television (McGinnies, 1994). . There is general agreement that violence exists on television... in the middle of paper... of violent media consumption, from the analysis of current literature, no one so far has linked the two areas together, using the weapon as a tool to measure the level of desensitization and, consequently, the effect it could have on eyewitness testimony. This research aimed to investigate the relationship that may take place between habitual violence in the media, the presence of weapon focus, and the number of remembered details of a given scenario featuring a weapon. The literature surrounding the area of ​​weapon focusing and desensitization, including eye tracking and questionnaire distribution, leads to the directional hypothesis that the average eye fixation time on a weapon in a given photograph and responses to a questionnaire asking participants to recall the context of the photograph will be significantly related to participants' level of habitual exposure to violent media.