{"id":119098,"date":"2026-10-07T19:05:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=119098"},"modified":"2026-10-07T19:06:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:06:05","slug":"119098","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=119098","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The CDC Corrects its Post on Defensive Gun Uses<\/a><\/p>\n

At the request of gun-control activists such as Mark Bryant, founder of the Gun Violence Archive, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u00a0removed its defensive gun-use data in May 2022. Bryant had complained that gun-rights advocates frequently cited the estimates to \u201cstop\u00a0[gun-control]\u00a0legislation<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0In July 2026, the Trump administration restored the post as it originally appeared before the CDC removed it and has now corrected an error in the original version.\u00a0This was the CDC\u2019s original post.<\/p>\n

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Gun control organizations, such as Michael Bloomberg\u2019s The Trace were outraged, with titles such as \u201cInflated Claim About Guns and Self-Defense Returns to CDC Website<\/a><\/strong>.\u201d The \u201cinflated\u201d claim was that the range of defensive gun uses ranged from 60,000 to 2.5 million.<\/p>\n

The 60,000 estimate is from an earlier NCVS. The problem is that 2013\u00a0National Academies of Sciences (NAS) report<\/a> warns the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) estimates are \u201cdifficult to interpret because respondents were not asked specifically about defensive gun use.\u201d The report noted that estimates from national surveys as cited by Kleck ranged from about 500,000 to more than 3 million defensive gun uses per year.<\/p>\n

The CDC has now corrected the information that had been posted<\/a><\/strong> and eliminated the lower estimate of defensive gun uses that the NAS report had noted was problematic..The NAS report didn\u2019t make it clear that the 500,000 number was just for handguns, and the top estimate from the NAS report was 3.7 million. But this is a big improvement over what had originally been put up at the CDC website.<\/p>\n

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What was in the 2013\u00a0National Academies of Sciences report<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The CDC Corrects its Post on Defensive Gun Uses At the request of gun-control activists such as Mark Bryant, founder of the Gun Violence Archive, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u00a0removed its defensive gun-use data in May 2022. Bryant had complained that gun-rights advocates frequently cited the estimates to \u201cstop\u00a0[gun-control]\u00a0legislation,\u201d\u00a0In July 2026, the Trump … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucraps","category-good-and-hard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119130,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119098\/revisions\/119130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}