According to the Washington Post, "CDC still avoids gun-violence research, demonstrating what many see as the depth of its fear about returning to one of the country’s most divisive debates". This is an issue that is well suited for the CDC to research and report on. The Dickey Amendment enacted in 1996 mandated that "none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may be used to advocate or promote gun control."
This is historical material “frozen in time”. The website is no longer updated and links to external websites and some internal pages may not work.
