In January, President Obama asked the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council to assemble a panel to make recommendations for research into the causes of gun violence and ways to prevent it. That panel has just released its report.
The four-page summary is available
here, and the full report (124 pp.) can be downloaded or read online at the website of the
National Academies Press. (Note that the latter is serious about its copyright policy, so let's be careful to follow
the policy here at TFL.)
I haven't had a chance to read the full report, and won't until later, but just from the summary, the panel has suggested an ambitious research program -- including research into who owns guns, what kind, how they're stored, etc. I expect some of this will raise our eyebrows a bit, and I'm not sure how they propose to study these things among people who own guns illegally.
A program such as this is also going to require substantial funding...