RESEARCH DISCLOSURE COMMENTS NEEDED

      Last year's omnibus appropriations bill contained an NRA-supported provision ordering the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to change its rules to require federally funded researchers -- such as the anti-gun campaigners supported by the Centers for Disease Control -- to release the data underlying their research.

      Unfortunately, OMB is trying to interpret that provision very narrowly and only require disclosure of data used "in developing policy or rules." That would allow anti-gun researchers and their government sponsors to claim that their studies weren't used in making rules, and therefore keep their taxpayer-funded data secret.

      The OMB is accepting comments on the proposed rule until this Monday, April 5. To make the deadline, you can address your comments to OMB by e-mail to: fcharney@omb.eop.gov.

To read OMB's proposal on theInternet, go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OMB/html/fedreg/a-110rev.html.

For NRA's comments, see our website at http://www.nraila.org.

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