Crime Prevention Research Center has the details. The CDC Corrects its Post on Defensive Gun Uses
The CDC had originally posted an estimate of anywhere from 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses per year, including instances where the defender never had to file a shot. In response to the gun control crowd, the Biden Administration pulled down the post from the CDC website.
The Trump administration first restored the original data, and have now updated it with a better estimate, though they kept the 2.5 million number and did not use the 3.7 million number.
The CDC has now corrected the information that had been posted and eliminated the lower estimate of defensive gun uses that the NAS report had noted was problematic..The NAS report didn’t make it clear that the 500,000 number was just for handguns, and the top estimate from the NAS report was 3.7 million. But this is a big improvement over what had originally been put up at the CDC website.
I'm sure the gun-hating part of the Left is having a fit.
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