The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been caught red-handed deleting defensive-gun-use statistics from its website.

In a story broken by Stephen Gutowski at The Reload, a collection of emails accessed through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request showed that gun-control activists worked closely, both face to face and via email, with CDC officials to remove statistics they didn’t like from the CDC’s website. Specifically, they didn’t want people to know about criminologist Gary Kleck’s 1992 study that indicated that Americans use firearms for self-defense up to 2.5 million times a year.

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