The CDC’s job is to study disease, not become a taxpayer-funded clearinghouse for gun control advocacy.
We’ve seen this movie before. For decades, anti-gun activists have tried to rebrand a constitutional right as a public health problem, then use government-funded “research” to justify the restrictions they wanted all along. Even the Dickey Amendment was enacted specifically to prevent taxpayer dollars from being used to advocate gun control.
If Democrats want to fund gun control lobbying, they already have organizations like Giffords and Everytown. They shouldn’t force taxpayers—including millions of law-abiding gun owners—to underwrite it through a federal agency.
The Second Amendment is a civil right. Civil rights don’t become less important because activists can find a government grant to produce another study.
U.S. Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-N.C.) introduced legislation that would put the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in charge of creating a publicly accessible federal database of “gun violence prevention” research.
The Gun Violence Prevention and Public Safety Database Act of 2026, listed as H.R. 9274, would direct CDC to build and maintain an online database of research related to “gun violence” and public safety. It would also authorize $5 million in taxpayer money each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030 to carry out this goal.
That isn’t neutral housekeeping. It’s a taxpayer-funded effort to create a federal clearinghouse for a gun control agenda that begins with a goal — create more restrictions on law-abiding Americans’ Second Amendment rights — then searches for the “right” data to justify it.
Don’t be shocked that we’re extremely skeptical of this scheme. Just look at the track record.
By Matt Manda
