At the request of gun control activists, such as Mark Bryant, the founder of the Gun Violence Archive, who complained that gun-rights advocates had cited the estimates so often to “stop [gun-control] legislation,” in May 2022, the Centers for Disease Control took down data on defensive gun uses. This was the original the CDC post.
The 60,000 estimate is from an earlier NCVS. The problem is that 2013 National Academies of Sciences (NAS) report warns the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) estimates are “difficult to interpret because respondents were not asked specifically about defensive gun use.” The report noted that estimates from national surveys as cited by Kleck ranged from about 500,000 to more than 3 million defensive gun uses per year.
The CDC has now corrected the information that had been posted and eliminated the lower estimate of defensive gun uses.
What was in the 2013 National Academies of Sciences report.
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