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Domestic Violence
Police officer Valerie Martinez put her small department at the vanguard. Her inventive policies are spreading.
Only 15 people turned over their firearms, according to a watchdog report, despite a state law that requires them to be disarmed.
Coronavirus & Guns
The tool could be a model for making it easier for people to seek court protection from domestic violence, even beyond the pandemic.
How We Fix This
The gun background check system is only as good as the records it contains. How one affable bureaucrat helped Louisiana set the standard for flagging people banned from owning firearms.
Widespread economic strain, a surge in firearm sales, and social distancing could have grave consequences for victims of intimate partner abuse, experts warn.
How a survivor of domestic violence, now working as a cop in the bayou, made her small community a model for the rest of the country.
Following The Trace’s reporting, Attorney General William Barr created a working group of U.S. Attorneys to share best practices for charging abusers who keep their guns.
When easy access to guns mixes with violent misogyny.
As U.S. attorneys prosecute more gun crimes, they are catching domestic abusers in their net.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Violence Against Women believes that arming women in domestic violence situations is key to their safety, despite experts’ warnings that the introduction of guns into abusive relationships can imperil victims.
Commentary
We must recognize that abusers with guns can cause damage well before they fire.
Ask The Trace
A reader asks whether strict gun laws reduce killings by intimate partners. Experts say yes, but some laws are more effective than others.
In coercive control, men use guns to threaten, manipulate, and traumatize their intimate partners, without ever pulling a trigger.
One million American women have survived a gunshot wound or been shot at, according to a 2016 review. But a gun doesn’t have to go off to cause harm in an abusive relationship. The same study estimated that 4.5 million…
A new study from the University of Pennsylvania finds that more than three quarters of domestic violence incidents involved dating partners, rather than spouses, a statistic that has potentially significant implications for protecting domestic abuse victims from gun violence.
