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Preventing Gun Violence Against Native Women
Six in ten Native women will be physically assaulted at some point in their lives and, on some reservations, the murder rate…
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Reporting Domestic Offenses to Background Check Systems: Does it Really Matter?
Background check systems, such as the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), were created to work like a…
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The Texas Church Massacre and Preventing Domestic Violence-Related Gun Violence
On Sunday, November 5, a man shot and killed 26 people and injured 20 others at a church service in Sutherland Springs, TX.
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Firearms Background Check Compliance Shows Signs of Improvement
Domestic violence perpetrators are banned from acquisition or possession of firearms under federal and some state laws.
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Armed Intimate Partners, Not Strangers, Present the Greatest Threat to Women’s Safety
A woman’s intimate partner with a gun is statistically a much greater threat to her than is a total stranger.
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State Intimate Partner Violence–Related Firearm Laws and Intimate Partner Homicide Rates in the United States, 1991 to 2015
Every year in the United States, more than 1800 people are killed by their intimate partners, and approximately 50% of these…
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