CDC Removed Defensive Gun Use Stats After Pressure From Anti-Gunners

The Centers For Disease Control (CDC) deleted a reference to a study it commissioned after a group of gun control advocates complained it made passing new restrictions more difficult.
 

According to The Reload, last summer, the CDC and gun control advocates held a meeting and exchanged a collection of emails, discussing a review of studies of defensive gun uses. The CDC initially estimated between 60,000 and 2.5 millions instances of defensive gun uses (GDU) per year, and posted that stat to their website under “fast facts.”

One of the gun control attendees of the meetings claimed, “That 2.5 million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again. It is highly misleading, is used out of context and I honestly believe it has zero value – even as an outlier point in honest DGU discussions.”