I'm surprised we haven't had more private / academic studies funded, to be honest. (on both sides).
Because they're afraid to:
The CDC was not alone in avoiding firearm studies. The National Institute of Justice, an arm of the U.S. Department of Justice, funded 32 gun-related studies from 1993 to 1999, but none from 2009-2013, according to Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Private nonprofits, with some notable exceptions such as the Joyce Foundation, skipped over gun-related research proposals.
Sponsors were spooked to fund stuff that had to do with guns, said Swanson at Duke. He said younger colleagues got the message: Studying firearms was not a way to attract vital grant funding. It was a field without a future.
Even the few gun studies that received funding took steps to avoid detection. In 2011, the National Science Foundation awarded Swanson $300,000 for a study it described as Testing Competing Theories of Violence. There was no mention of guns in the title or the study abstract. But Swanson said the study evaluates the effectiveness of mental health firearm restrictions. He titled the same study: Firearms Laws, Mental Disorder, and Violence.
Its odd, Swanson said, but if youre trying to do policy-informed research, you run into the fact that there are elected officials who dont want to know the answer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...e-despite-the-ban-being-lifted-two-years-ago/