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National Gun Violence Research Act of 2025
To provide for a coordinated national research program to examine the nature, causes, consequences, and prevention of violence and unintended injury and death relating to gun ownership, use, and trafficking, and for other purposes.
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Summary
National Gun Violence Research Act of 2025
This bill promotes gun violence research, including by
- removing limitations on the use of firearms tracing data by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives;
- permitting funds made available to the Department of Health and Human Services to be used for gun violence research;
- establishing the National Gun Violence Research Program to promote gun violence research; and
- authorizing competitive grants to support research into the nature, causes, consequences, and prevention of gun violence.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- Sep 30, 2025 Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Sep 30, 2025 Introduced in House
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