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New Trump Admin Stats Prove Good Guys With Guns Save Lives

The federal government consistently downplays evidence that armed, law-abiding citizens can stop public mass-casualty attacks.

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Those who manipulate crime data can shape the political debate. The Trump administration has reversed some serious data manipulation that occurred during the Biden administration when it comes to crime.

At the request of gun control advocates, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) removed data from its website. The Trump administration has now restored the data, but it went a step further, correcting an important error in the original post.

That correction is a major accomplishment. But there are problems with data at the FBI and Department of Justice that still need to be corrected.

Getting the CDC Back in Line

A 2013 National Academies of Sciences (NAS) report, co-sponsored by the CDC, discussed research producing estimates of defensive gun uses ranging from about 500,000 annually at the lower end of national surveys to over three million. Yet the CDC posted a substantially different range of 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses per year.

During the Biden administration, the White House and Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois connected gun control advocates with CDC officials. The advocates then met privately with CDC officials and exchanged numerous emails as they pressed the agency to remove its discussion of defensive gun use. Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request revealed that the advocates objected in part because “gun rights folks” cited defensive-gun-use estimates to “stop [gun-control] legislation.”

By May 2022, the CDC removed the defensive-gun-use material from its website. It remained down until the Trump administration restored the original post in July 2026. Gun control organizations sharply criticized the decision. Michael Bloomberg-funded outlet The Trace, for example, ran the headline, “Inflated Claim About Guns and Self-Defense Returns to CDC Website.”

But the CDC’s range of 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses did not accurately describe what the 2013 NAS report said about........

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