Last June, CRPA attorney Kostas Moros noticed something funny – the CDC had edited its website’s references to defensive gun use. For years, the CDC cited DGU estimates from both the NCVS and private surveys, saying that estimates range from “60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses each year,” and linking to a 2013 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Last year, that was changed to instead state that: “Estimates of defensive gun use vary depending on the questions asked, populations studied, timeframe, and other factors related to study design. Given the wide variability in estimates, additional research is necessary to understand defensive gun use prevalence, frequency, circumstances, and outcomes.”
This change piqued Kostas’s curiosity, so he filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the CDC asking for all documents and communications related to the decision to change the website. Earlier this month, around 6 months after the FOIA request was first filed, he received a trove of emails, some of which were redacted, showing how the decision to make the edit was made.
As Kostas himself explained recently on The Ingraham Angle, that's when things got interesting:
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