Repeal Tiahrt Amendment that censors ATF data on firearms, and reverse policy that prohibits CDC gun violence research.

IMPEL CONGRESS TO REPEAL THEIR CENSORSHIP OF DATA/RESEARCH ON GUN VIOLENCE. According to Tom Diaz of the Violence Policy Center (Terry Gross interview) and other sources: in 2003, the NRA pressured Congress into passing the Tiahrt Amendment, which prohibits the ATF from releasing data from crime gun traces, provides protections to gun dealers and lax requirements for compliance, and requires FBI to destroy data from background checks of gun purchasers within 24 hours. Also, the gun industry and NRA have applied pressure that caused the elimination of funding for independent firearms research from the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Today, the CDC only conducts firearm research first approved by the NRA. This has severely limited public knowledge and debate on effects of guns in society