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Domestic Violence
“It’s a matter of life and death," says one survivor.
He shot me, too, with a 9mm Glock. Now that's the gun I keep at home.
Federal law bars convicted abusers from owning guns, but very few states enforce it.
A statistical guide to firearms, intimate partner abuse, and the children, parents, and police who become victims, too.
Background Checks
The same loophole allowed the Charleston shooter to purchase the weapon he used to kill nine worshippers last year.
One of the petitioner’s 14 convictions was for slapping his girlfriend so hard that she hit the floor.
Most states wait for the outcome of a hearing on a permanent order before a firearms ban kicks in— a lag that can have deadly consequences.
Law enforcement had no way to be sure Eulalio Tordil was in full compliance with his protective order, and now three people are dead.
Community Violence
Another 30 were shot but survived. In most cases, someone in their own family pulled the trigger.
America has come a long way in treating all domestic violence as serious. To get their firearm rights back, two men from Maine are making an argument which threatens that progress.
