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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 827 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the relationships between firearm violence, misogyny, and violence against women, 

and reaffirming the importance of preventing individuals with a history 

of violence against women from accessing a firearm. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 30, 2023 

Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin (for herself and Mrs. DINGELL) submitted the 

following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the relationships between firearm violence, misogyny, 

and violence against women, and reaffirming the importance of preventing individuals with a history of violence 

against women from accessing a firearm. 

Whereas more than 1 in 3 women have experienced some 

form of intimate partner violence, including sexual violence, physical violence, or stalking, in their lifetime, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline; 

Whereas restricted access to reproductive justice places victims at greater risk of intimate partner violence, according to the National Women’s Law Center; 


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Whereas the majority of intimate partner homicides follow 

previous incidents of physical violence against the victim; 

Whereas 61 percent of female homicide victims were killed by 

an intimate partner according to the Violence Policy Center; 

Whereas the U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence recognizes the importance of addressing gun violence in intimate partner relationships in order to address 

and prevent gender-based violence; 

Whereas 60 domestic violence and gender-based violence organizations filed a survivor-story amicus brief to the Supreme Court in the case of United States v. Rahimi, 

demonstrating that domestic violence abusers frequently 

engage in a pattern of abusive conduct that includes the 

use of firearms to control, terrorize, and sometimes kill 

their victims, family members, and members of society at 

large; 

Whereas, during the COVID–19 pandemic, domestic violence 

incidents rose nationally and globally, with this crisis disproportionately impacting women; 

Whereas, in February 2021, the National Commission on 

COVID–19 and Criminal Justice (NCCCJ) reported that 

incidents of domestic violence increased by 8.1 percent 

after lockdown orders were issued, police departments in 

communities across the country reported higher calls related to domestic violence and family violence, and domestic violence homicides increased by 4 percent in 2020; 

Whereas American Indian/Alaska Native, Black, and Latina 

women are disproportionately killed by firearm-related 

homicides; 


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Whereas approximately 4,500,000 women alive today in the 

United States have been threatened by an intimate partner with a firearm and almost 1,000,000 women report 

being shot or shot at by an intimate partner, according 

to a 2016 study published in Trauma, Violence, and 

Abuse; 

Whereas nearly half of all female homicide victims between 

2003 and 2014 were killed by intimate partners, according to a 2017 study published in the Journal of the 

American Medical Association; 

Whereas homicide is the leading cause of death during pregnancy and postpartum, and deaths from homicides are 

higher than deaths from sepsis, hemorrhage, and hypertensive disorders, according to Harvard T.H. Chan 

School of Public Health researchers; 

Whereas, according to the Giffords’ Law Center, domestic 

abusers who have access to a gun are 5 times more likely 

to kill their partner; 

Whereas domestic violence incidents involving a gun are 12 

times more likely to be fatal than assaults involving other 

weapons or bodily force, according to the Giffords’ Law 

Center; 

Whereas an estimated three-quarters of intimate partner 

homicides in which there were multiple victims involve a 

firearm; 

Whereas a 2019 comparison of violent death rates among 

high-income countries indicates that women in the United 

States are 21 times more likely to be killed with a firearm than women in other high-income countries; 


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Whereas 91.6 percent of all women killed by firearms in highincome countries in 2015 were killed in the United 

States; 

Whereas an analysis of active shooter incidents between 2000 

and 2018 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation found 

that 241 out of 250 incidents involved a male shooter; 

Whereas an analysis of mass shootings by Everytown for Gun 

Safety indicates that in 54 percent of mass shootings in 

the United States between 2009 and 2017 in which 4 or 

more people were killed, the shooter killed a former or 

current intimate partner or family member; 

Whereas, on August 4, 2019, 9 people, including the gunman’s sister, were killed and 27 people were wounded 

when a shooter with a history of aggression against 

women, including an incident in which he was suspended 

from high school for possessing a list of female classmates he targeted for sexual violence, opened fire in Dayton, Ohio; 

Whereas, on November 5, 2017, 25 people were killed, including a pregnant woman, and 20 people were wounded in 

Sutherland Springs, Texas, by a shooter with an established history of domestic violence, including a prior conviction for domestic violence against his wife and stepson 

and a separate investigation into a rape complaint; 

Whereas, on December 6, 2016, a mother and her 3 children 

were shot and killed by a former dating partner who had 

been convicted of stalking a former girlfriend and arrested for battery against a household member, but continued to have access to firearms because of the ‘‘boyfriend loophole’’ wherein he was not married to the 

women he abused; 


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Whereas, on June 12, 2016, 49 people were killed and 53 

people were wounded when a shooter who was physically 

abusive toward his wife, including by allegedly beating 

her while she was pregnant, opened fire in the Pulse 

nightclub in Orlando, Florida; 

Whereas, on February 25, 2016, a gunman shot and killed 

3 people and injured 14 people in Newton and Hesston, 

Kansas, after being served with a temporary protective 

order related to an abusive relationship; 

Whereas, on May 23, 2014, 6 people were killed and 14 people were wounded by being stabbed, shot, or struck by 

the vehicle of a self-identified member of the involuntary 

celibate, or incel, group of men who blame women for 

their sexual frustrations and advocate for violence against 

them, with the shooter uploading a video and publishing 

a manifesto detailing his hatred toward women in Isla 

Vista, California, near the University of California, Santa 

Barbara; 

Whereas, on December 14, 2012, 26 students and teachers 

were killed in a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School after a shooter who previously threatened the 

life of his mother shot and killed her at home; 

Whereas 11 percent of background check denials are attributed to a misdemeanor of domestic violence or a protective or restraining order according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics most recent report on background checks 

for firearm transfers; 

Whereas the so-called ‘‘Charleston Loophole’’, which allows a 

licensed firearms dealer to sell a firearm to a person after 

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plete, has allowed nearly 2,000 domestic abusers to acquire firearms over the past 2 years; 

Whereas a 2017 analysis of State firearm restrictions for perpetrators of domestic violence found that firearm prohibition laws that apply to dating partners are associated 

with a 16-percent reduction in intimate partner homicide; 

Whereas, under Federal law, domestic abusers are banned 

from having guns if they are married to or have a child 

with their partner, but abusive dating partners are still 

not subject to final protective orders and intimate partners are just as likely to be killed by their abusive dating 

partners as their abusive married spouses, according to 

Everytown; and 

Whereas the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, signed into 

law by President Biden on June 25, 2022, was the first 

meaningful gun violence prevention legislation enacted in 

nearly 3 decades: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) acknowledges the need for legislation to bet3 ter prevent individuals with a history of violence 

4 against women from purchasing or possessing a fire5 arm; and 

6 (2) supports further research into the relation7 ships among misogyny, violence against women, and 

8 firearm violence. 

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