# Gun Violence Prevention Research Act of 2023

This bill would give the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) $50 million per year for six years—totaling $300 million—to study gun violence and firearms safety. Right now, the CDC has very limited funding for this type of research, so this bill would dramatically expand their ability to investigate how gun violence happens, what prevents it, and what makes firearms safer.

Think of it like this: we have researchers studying cancer, heart disease, and car safety crashes, but gun violence research has been largely underfunded. This bill treats gun violence like a public health problem that deserves scientific investigation, similar to how we study other causes of injury and death. The money would go toward studies on things like what policies or programs actually reduce gun deaths, how to design safer guns, what factors lead to mass shootings, and whether certain prevention strategies work better than others.

The practical impact depends on your perspective. If you support gun violence prevention, this gives researchers the resources to provide evidence about what actually works—information that could inform future policies and potentially save lives. If you're concerned about gun rights, you might worry that this research could be used to justify stricter gun regulations. Either way, the bill is essentially about funding scientific study rather than making any new laws itself. The research findings would be available to policymakers, public health officials, and the public to use as they see fit.

Gun Violence Prevention Research Act of 2023

Slotkin, Elissa

Gun Violence Prevention Research Act of 2023 This bill authorizes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct or support research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention.