There's a renewed push to overturn a ban on CDC funding for research on gun violence prevention. 5th District Congresswoman Jahana Hayes is cosponsoring a bill to fund research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on firearms safety or gun violence prevention.  Putnam County Representative Sean Patrick Maloney also backs the measure.  It's a bipartisan bill, with Republican Peter King of Long Island signing on as a co-sponsor.  An appropriations rider from 1996, authored by Republican Jay Dickey, prohibits funding for such research at the CDC.  The original rider’s author says the intention was to prevent the CDC from lobbying for gun control, not from conducting gun-violence research and now opposes the language.