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This webinar covers strategies for effective implementation at all stages of civil and criminal domestic violence cases. Is your community doing all it can to prevent firearms-related violence perpetrated by abusers in DV cases? Are you encountering challenges to implementing existing…
Author: Nancy Hart, Darren Mitchell
This analysis looks at Voisine v. US, a Supreme Court case from 2016, which established the Lautenberg Amendment that expanded firearm ownership prohibition under federal law. In one of the final cases decided in its 2015-16 term, Voisine v. US,…
Author: Sandra Tibbetts Murphy, BWJP
This matrix is a compilation of case law involving the federal firearm prohibitor 18 USC 922(g)(9) and misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence (MCDV).
Author: National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith & Credit, BWJP
This analysis covers the 2015 Supreme Court case, Henderson v. US. In Henderson, the Court held that a court-ordered transfer of a felon’s lawfully owned firearms from law enforcement custody to a third party is not barred by current federal…
Author: Sandra Tibbetts Murphy, BWJP
This guide for prosecutors provides key information on the federal Gun Control Act prohibiting those subject to a protection order (18 USC 922 (g)(8)) or those convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence (MCDV) (18 USC 922 (g)(9)) from possessing…
Author: National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith & Credit, BWJP
This checklist for law enforcement provides information on two classes of persons prohibited under the domestic violence related provisions of the federal Gun Control Act. Those subject to a protection order (18 USC 922 (g)(8)) and those convicted of a…
Author: National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith & Credit, BWJP
This checklist provides information for advocates facilitating a discussion with survivors about firearms. It also provides key information on the federal Gun Control Act provisions prohibiting the purchase or possession of firearms by those subject to a protection order (18…
Author: National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith & Credit, BWJP
This article examines practices in Wisconsin that help facilitate surrender of firearms from prohibited possessors. Federal law prohibits respondents in Orders for Protection from possessing firearms since the passage in 1994 of the original Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Many…
Author: Danielle Long, Stephanie Avalon
Wisconsin recently enacted legislation intended to ensure that respondents subject to protection orders comply with the firearm surrender requirements. Under Wisconsin law, respondents subject to a domestic abuse or child abuse injunction are automatically required to surrender the firearms they…
Author: Danielle Long, David W. Keck, Amber Peterson, Rochelle Skorlinski, BWJP
This promising practice explores El Paso’s court system’s adoption of protocols to aid in the removal of firearms from dangerous abusers.
Author: National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith & Credit, BWJP
