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Introduced September 30, 2025 by Valerie Foushee · Last progress September 30, 2025
The bill substantially expands and coordinates federal gun‑violence research and training—improving evidence to prevent injuries and aid enforcement—while requiring new federal spending and raising privacy, political, and program-capacity trade-offs that could limit or delay net benefits.
Researchers, public-health officials, and communities nationwide will see a coordinated expansion of federal gun-violence research, producing stronger evidence to inform interventions that could reduce firearm injuries and deaths.
Scientists, students, and universities will gain new competitive grants, centers, and training opportunities (including NSF, HHS, DOJ funding), increasing research capacity and career pathways in gun violence prevention.
Law-enforcement agencies and communities will benefit from improved ATF gun-trace analysis and related enforcement data use that can aid criminal investigations and local public-safety programs.
Taxpayers face increased federal spending (authorized additions ≈ $44M/year across agencies) which could raise deficit pressure or require trade-offs with other priorities.
Firearm owners, dealers, patients, and other individuals risk privacy and civil‑liberties harms from expanded data collection and sharing (including ATF trace/licensee data and injury-level records) if protections and confidentiality protocols are insufficient.
Political controversy and partisan pushback could delay studies, limit research scope, or undermine uptake of findings, reducing the near-term policy impact of funded research.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Establishes a federal National Gun Violence Research Program, lifts prior research restrictions, and authorizes multi-agency grants, data access, training, and voluntary standards with funding through FY2031.
Creates a federally coordinated National Gun Violence Research Program run through the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to expand and fund multi-agency research, training, data access, and voluntary technical standards on gun violence. It removes prior restrictions on federal agencies (including HHS and ATF-related data) that limited gun-violence research, authorizes competitive grants and research centers across NSF, NIH/CDC, DOJ/NIJ, and NIST, and sets specific annual funding authorizations for FY2026–FY2031.