In this instance, the NIJ's agenda was to look at these events, analyze them, and come up with recommendations for safely managing firearms in the home to try and cut down on the number of kids that find their parents guns and accidentally kill themselves and or others with them. That happens on average about 3,000 times a year here in the US.

Their agenda was/is not anti gun, quite the opposite in fact. It was/is pro gun and pro responsible gun ownership and management.