IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1541 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the relation-
ships among 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 11, 2024 
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 regard-
ing the relationships among firearm violence, misogyny, 
and violence against women, and reaffirming the impor-
tance 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 vio-
lence, physical violence, or stalking, according to the Na-
tional Domestic Violence Hotline; 
Whereas restricted access to reproductive justice places vic-
tims at greater risk of intimate partner violence, accord-
ing to the National Women’s Law Center; 
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Whereas the majority of intimate partner homicides follow in-
cidents of physical violence against the victim; 
Whereas, between 1996 and 2020, 61 percent of female 
homicide victims were killed by an intimate partner, ac-
cording to the Violence Policy Center; 
Whereas the U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Vio-
lence recognizes the importance of addressing firearm vi-
olence in intimate partner relationships in order to ad-
dress and prevent gender-based violence; 
Whereas, in recent years, cases have come before the United 
States Supreme Court, including New York State Rifle & 
Pistol Association v. Bruen, United States v. Rahimi, and 
Garland v. Cargill, questioning the constitutionality of ex-
isting gun safety measures, and demonstrating that the 
current Court is open to arguments that challenge long- 
guaranteed federal protections; 
Whereas, during the COVID–19 pandemic, domestic violence 
incidents rose nationally and globally, with this crisis dis-
proportionately 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 received higher numbers 
of calls related to domestic and family violence, and do-
mestic violence homicides increased by 4 percent in 2020; 
Whereas American Indian/Alaska Native, Black, and Latina 
women are disproportionately killed by firearm-related 
homicides; 
Whereas, in the United States, approximately 4,500,000 
women alive today have been threatened by an intimate 
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partner with a firearm and almost 1,000,000 women alive 
today have been shot, or shot at, by an intimate partner, 
according to a 2020 analysis by Everytown for Gun Safe-
ty; 
Whereas, nearly half of all female homicide victims between 
2003 and 2014 were killed by intimate partners, accord-
ing to a 2017 study published in the Journal of the 
American Medical Association; 
Whereas homicide is the leading cause of death for pregnant 
people, with nearly 7 out of 10 pregnancy-associated 
homicides involving a firearm; 
Whereas homicide is the leading cause of death during preg-
nancy and postpartum, and deaths from homicides are 
higher than deaths from sepsis, hemorrhage, and hyper-
tensive disorders, according to researchers from the Har-
vard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; 
Whereas, according to the Giffords’ Law Center, domestic 
abusers who have access to a firearm are 5 times more 
likely to kill their partners; 
Whereas domestic violence incidents involving a firearm 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 involved 
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 fire-
arm than women in other high-income countries; 
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Whereas 91.6 percent of all women killed by firearms in high- 
income countries in 2019 were killed in the United 
States; 
Whereas, of the 49 active shooter incidents reported by the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2023, 98 percent in-
volved a male shooter; 
Whereas, an analysis by the Gun Violence Archive between 
2014 and 2019 found that domestic-violence mass shoot-
ings were associated with a greater fatality rate, and that 
in more than two-thirds (68.2 percent) of mass shootings 
analyzed, the perpetrator either killed family or intimate 
partners, or had a history of domestic violence; 
Whereas the perpetrator of the mass shooting in 2022 at 
Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 
children and 2 adults killed had an extensive history of 
directing graphic and disturbing content at young women 
online, had threatened female co-workers, and had shot 
his grandmother, Celia ‘‘Sally’’ Gonzalez, and left her for 
dead prior to the mass shooting; 
Whereas, on May 26, 2021, 9 co-workers were killed at a rail 
yard in San Jose, California, by a man who had an al-
leged history of domestic violence; 
Whereas, on August 4, 2019, 9 people, including the gun-
man’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 class-
mates he targeted for sexual violence, opened fire in Day-
ton, Ohio; 
Whereas, on November 5, 2017, 25 people were killed, includ-
ing a pregnant woman, and 20 people were wounded in 
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Sutherland Springs, Texas, by a shooter with an estab-
lished history of domestic violence, including a prior con-
viction 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 ar-
rested for battery against a household member, but con-
tinued to have access to firearms because of the ‘‘boy-
friend loophole’’ wherein he was not married to the 
women he abused; 
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 wounded 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 peo-
ple were wounded in Isla Vista, California, near the Uni-
versity of California, Santa Barbara, by being stabbed or 
shot by, or struck by the vehicle of, a self-identified mem-
ber of the involuntary celibate, or incel, group of men 
who blame women for their sexual frustrations and advo-
cate for violence against them, with the shooter uploading 
a video and publishing a manifesto detailing his hatred 
toward women; 
Whereas, on December 14, 2012, 26 students and teachers 
were killed in a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elemen-
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tary 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 attrib-
uted to a misdemeanor of domestic violence or a protec-
tive or restraining order, according to the Bureau of Jus-
tice 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 
3 business days even if the background check is not com-
plete, has allowed nearly 2,000 domestic abusers to ac-
quire firearms over the past 2 years; 
Whereas a 2017 analysis of State firearm restrictions for per-
petrators of domestic violence found that firearm prohibi-
tion 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 possessing firearms if they are married to, or have 
a child with, their partners, but abusive dating partners 
are still not subject to final protective orders, and inti-
mate partners are just as likely to be killed by their abu-
sive dating partners as their abusive married spouses, ac-
cording to Everytown for Gun Safety; and 
Whereas the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, signed into 
law by President Biden on June 25, 2022, was the first 
meaningful firearm violence prevention legislation enacted 
since the 1990s: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) acknowledges the need for legislation to bet-
ter prevent individuals with a history of violence 
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against women from purchasing or possessing a fire-
arm; and 
(2) supports further research into the relation-
ships among misogyny, violence against women, and 
firearm violence. 
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