Consider the stack $Bun_{r,d}^{ss}$ of rank $r$ semi-stable vector bundle of degree $d$ over a fixed curve. There exists also a coarse moduli space $M$ built via GIT. Over the stable locus of $M$ it is well known that the natural morphism $Bun_{r,d} \to M$ is a gerbe. This is basically due to the fat that $Bun_{r,d}^{ss}$ is a $GL_n$ quotient stack of some Quot-scheme, and the moduli space below is the GIT quotient of the same scheme via $PGL_n$.
But what happens over the strictly semistable locus (which is the singular locus of the GIT moduli space)? What's the structure of the fiber? It should be more complicated.
