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Checked by PolitiFact23 Apr 2024United States Politics and government

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., presidential candidate

“Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: The Dickey Amendment didn’t literally ban all federally funded gun research from 1996 to 2018, but federal administrators acted as though it did. In 2018, new language clarified that such research was allowed.