“Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings.”
What PolitiFact found
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.
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In short
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (presidential candidate) made this claim around 21 April 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 April 2024, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has 55 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 27 of them false or fake, 27 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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