un control advocates successfully pressured the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) into hiding one of its own studies on defensive use of firearms, triggering lawmakers to question where the agency’s loyalties lie.

The CDC deleted from its website a study estimating as many as 2.5 million defensive gun uses in the U.S. after months of pressure from gun control advocates, who said that data point was “misleading” and made it harder to pass new restrictions, according to emails revealed by The Reload.

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