Subject: Sanders Call for Gun Study Funding After 1996 Vote Against Similar Research | Reuters
From: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
To: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 10:01:16 -0500

*Sanders Calls for Gun Study Funding After 1996 Vote Against Similar
Research*

*Reuters*

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Thursday urged the
funding of gun violence studies at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), two decades after he voted against funding research into
firearms injuries.

"We must authorize resources for the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention to study and research the causes and effects of gun violence in
the United States of America," a Sanders campaign email said on Thursday.

The email came a day after 14 people were killed in a shooting in San
Bernardino, California.

Congress, at the urging of gun rights supporters, put restrictions on CDC
funding of gun research into the federal budget in 1996.

Sanders, then a Vermont U.S. representative, voted against an amendment,
which ultimately failed, that would have authorized funding for such
research, according to the website for the Office of the Clerk of the House
of Representatives. ( 1.usa.gov/1HJAOXR)

Sanders, now a senator, is vying with front-runner Hillary Clinton and
former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley for the Democratic nomination for
the November 2016 presidential election. Gun control has emerged as an
issue following a recent series of mass shootings.

Sanders has been dogged by criticism from gun-control groups since entering
the presidential race.

While in the House of Representatives, he supported a 2005 federal law that
shielded gun manufacturers, distributors and dealers from civil liability
for mass shootings, and voted against the 1993 Brady Bill that imposed
mandatory background checks and waiting periods for gun purchases.

Residents of Vermont are generally protective of gun rights.

The Sanders campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment on
Thursday. But it has said he favors "sensible gun-control legislation" and
that he supported Senate efforts to ban assault weapons and high-capacity
magazines after the 2012 mass shooting at an elementary school in
Connecticut.

Fifty percent of Democrats support Clinton, the former secretary of state,
while 36 percent support Sanders, according to a five-day rolling poll from
Reuters/Ipsos dated Tuesday.

(Reporting by Luciana Lopez
<http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&n=luciana.lopez&>;
Editing by Peter Cooney
<http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&n=peter.cooney&>)

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Director of Strategic Communications & Amplification
Hillary For America
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