Overview

House Bill 9274, formally titled the Gun Violence Prevention and Public Safety Database Act, was introduced on June 11 by Representative Valerie Fushi. The legislation would allocate $5 million annually to the CDC through 2030 to establish a centralized public database drawing from peer-reviewed journals and research organizations in addition to traditional law enforcement sources.

Pros

• Creates a single, searchable federal repository for gun-related data intended to inform public policy.
• Expands data sources beyond FBI and law-enforcement statistics to include academic studies.

Cons

• Critics argue the bill effectively bypasses the Dickey Amendment by allowing activist-funded research to enter official federal records.
• Concerns that the CDC, rather than the FBI or DOJ, would curate the data, potentially framing firearm ownership as a public-health issue rather than a law-enforcement matter.
• Opponents claim the measure could enable private insurers and financial institutions to cite the database when restricting services to gun owners or retailers.

Specs

• Funding: $5 million per year through 2030.
• Data sources: peer-reviewed medical journals, approved research organizations, and law-enforcement statistics.
• Public access: database required to be publicly searchable.

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