Guns. Do they make us safer? The numbers. The facts.

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52. Um no, the CDC gun research ban was not lifted by Obama.

He does not control the power of the purse. The House GOP's ban on funding research into the cause of gun violence is still in place. All that 2013 report did was summarize old, existing research and recommend what new research should be done. That research was never done, due to the ban.

The report in no way made the "findings" you assert. The CDC did no research, so it had no findings. As the report explains, its purpose was to propose research:

In January 2013, President Obama issued 23 executive orders directing federal agencies to improve knowledge of the causes of firearm violence, the interventions that might prevent it, and strategies to minimize its public health burden. One of these executive orders noted that “in addition to being a law enforcement challenge, firearm violence is also a serious public health issue that affects thousands of individuals, families, and communities across the Nation,” and directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), along with other relevant federal agencies, to immediately begin identifying the most pressing firearm-related violence research problems.

The CDC and the CDC Foundation requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM), in collaboration with the National Research Council (NRC), convene a committee of experts to develop a potential research agenda focusing on the public health aspects of firearm-related violence—its causes, approaches to interventions that could prevent it, and strategies to minimize its health burden.

http://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/2#6