How Congress Stopped the CDC Gun Grabbers & Saved Science

Yes, this federal agency was using our tax dollars to advocate for revoking our civil right to own firearms.

But the real bombshell was the Injury Prevention Network Newsletter, published by the San Francisco gun prohibition group, the Trauma Foundation. This newsletter exhorted readers to “organize a picket at gun manufacturing sites” and to “work for campaign finance reform to weaken the gun lobby’s political clout.” An editor’s note explains: “This newsletter was supported in part by Grant #R49/CCR903697-06 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” Under pressure the CDC later requested a refund of the grant money. But its sympathy with a radical gun prohibition group had already been put on record.

Few were surprised when the full committee report for the 1997 appropriations bill contained “a limitation to prohibit the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers …Read the Rest