Did the Dickye Amendment Actually Ban Federal Funding of Gun Research?

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Dicky's amendment led to congress basically defunding gun research. The irony is, towards the end of dicky's life, he actually said that was a mistake. I've gone back through it in my mind to say, what could we have done? And i know what we could have done. We could have kept the fund alive and just restricted the expenditure of dollars. It took a couple of more years to get those appropriations back.

America’s gun violence epidemic is a public health crisis. After 24 years of blocked funding, Congress is finally starting to treat it like one.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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