Claim: Says the Dickey Amendment "prevents the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from even researching the relationship between gun violence and public health. ... The government can't study gun violence but is spending $400,000 analyzing the effects of Swedish massages on rabbits."
Fact-check: Money for rabbit massage, but not gun violence?
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Jon Greenberg
Date published: 2017-10-05T00:00:00