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A key federal agency worked with gun control advocates to bury a study that showed law-abiding firearms owners use them to protect themselves millions of times per year (2.5 million times per year), according to a report

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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) deleted a reference to the study, which it had commissioned, after gun-control advocates said it made passing new gun laws more difficult.

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"That 2.5 Million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again," Mark Bryant, head of the Gun Violence Archive, wrote to CDC officials after a meeting.

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Bryant's email was one of a handful obtained by The Reload which illustrate how gun control lobbyists were triggered by the study by Florida State University Criminology Professor Gary Kleck. That study was one of several the CDC reviewed on defensive gun uses. Kleck's findings represented the upper end of estimates for how many times lawful gun owners defended themselves.

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Bryant complained that Kleck's estimate was "misinformation" and should be eliminated from the CDC's website because gun-rights advocates were using it as ammunition for their Second Amendment arguments.

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The CDC initially stood by the study and listed it in the "Fast Facts: Firearm Violence Prevention" portion of its website. But after a September 15, 2021, virtual meeting with gun control advocates, the agency assured them it would revise the section in 2022.

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In 2022, references to studies involving defensive gun use were scrubbed from the site.

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Ciboag96 said:

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Guess "Science in Real" is, in fact, not real.

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Rapier108 said:

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The CDC is tasked with declaring guns to be a "public health emergency" so Biden can use emergency powers to enact all kinds of anti-gun regulations/orders without it going through Congress.

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Ciboag96 said:

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Guess "Science in Real" is, in fact, not real.

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That 2.5 Million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again," Mark Bryant, head of the Gun Violence Archive, wrote to CDC officials after a meeting.

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