The CDC Can’t Fund Gun Research. What if that Changed?

America doesn’t have good data on guns. Blame the Dickey amendment. First introduced in 1996, the legislation didn’t ban gun investigations explicitly (it forbade the use of federal dollars in the advocacy or promotion of gun control), but Congress that year also cut the budget for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by the …

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