Lawmakers struck a bipartisan spending deal that for the first time in over 20 years includes funding for research on gun violence.
"With this investment, the best public health researchers in the country will be put to work to identify ways to reduce injury and death due to firearms," Lowey said.
Another of the measure's champions, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., said new funding would"help us better understand the correlation between domestic violence and gun violence, how Americans can more safely store guns and how we can intervene to reduce suicide by firearms." Democrats, who have railed against the prohibition for years, made some headway in last year's spending bill bythat said,"While appropriations language prohibits the CDC and other agencies from using appropriated funding to advocate or promote gun control ... the Secretary of Health and Human Services has stated the CDC has the authority to conduct research on the causes of gun violence.
While the National Rifle Association pushed for the Dickey Amendment, it maintains that it does not oppose gun research. Instead, the group says, it opposes research that is biased, flimsy or aimed at advocacy.Dareh Gregorian
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