Health experts urge NIH to renew gun research funding after Las Vegas shooting
National Institutes of Health funding for gun violence research expired earlier this year, and the agency hasn't yet renewed it under Trump.
by Max Blau
Oct 03, 2017
3 minutes
In the wake of the Las Vegas concert shooting, the deadliest mass shooting in recent American history, health experts are urging the National Institutes of Health to renew funding for gun violence research that expired earlier this year.
Following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, President Obama directed health agencies to fund research into firearms — leading the NIH, which has an annual budget of $34 billion, to award a total of
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