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Over several months in 2024, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and Firearms (NRCDVF) conducted site visits in three communities, each of which has developed a multi-jurisdictional collaboration with the specific goal of addressing firearm-facilitated domestic violence and domestic…
Author: NRCDVF
This presentation, a joint collaboration with BWJP’s National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and Firearms and National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith and Credit and the National ERPO Resource Center at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence…
This webinar summarizes the case and the Court’s decision, as well as identifies practical considerations for courts, attorneys, prosecutors, law enforcement, victim advocates and others for implementing the federal domestic violence protection order firearm prohibition in light of the Rahimi…
Author: NRCDVF
This resource details the importance of having a firearm relinquishment protocol in order to ensure that people who become prohibited from accessing firearms related to their perpetration of intimate partner violence (because they are subject to a domestic violence protection…
Author: BWJP
This resource explains what changes the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act made to narrow the so-called “boyfriend loophole,” how “dating relationships” are defined by this law, and how victim advocates can support survivors whose current or former dating partners may have…
Author: NRCDVF
Prevalence rates of both intimate partner violence and gun violence remain pervasive. Research demonstrates a lethal association when intimate partner violence and firearms are combined.
Author: NRCDVF
“This checklist provides information for attorneys facilitating a discussion with survivors about firearms. It also provides key information on the federal Gun Control Act provisions prohibiting the shipping, transporting, purchasing, or possession of firearms and/or ammunition by those subject to…
Taking Back Control is a podcast brought to you by BWJP. BWJP is the national resource center on civil and criminal justice responses to gender based violence. In this podcast we will bring together advocates from across the country to…
This checklist for judges provides key information on the federal Gun Control Act provisions prohibiting the purchase, transport or possession of firearms by those subject to a protection order(18 USC 922 (g)(8)) Detailed information on who is prohibited, as well…
Author: BWJP
Federal law provides a framework to keep guns out of the hands of those who perpetrate domestic violence. Those laws can be complex to understand. This resource provides a basic explanation of the current federal firearms laws that address intimate…
Author: BWJP
