IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 827 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the relation-
ships 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 regard-
ing the relationships between 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, in their lifetime, ac-
cording to the National 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 
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 Cen-
ter; 
Whereas the U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Vio-
lence recognizes the importance of addressing gun vio-
lence in intimate partner relationships in order to address 
and prevent gender-based violence; 
Whereas 60 domestic violence and gender-based violence or-
ganizations filed a survivor-story amicus brief to the Su-
preme 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 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 reported higher calls re-
lated to domestic violence 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; 
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•HRES 827 IH 
Whereas approximately 4,500,000 women alive today in the 
United States have been threatened by an intimate part-
ner 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, accord-
ing to a 2017 study published in the Journal of the 
American Medical Association; 
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 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 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 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 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 
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; 
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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 peo-
ple 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 Elemen-
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-
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•HRES 827 IH 
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 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 part-
ners 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 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) acknowledges the need for legislation to bet-
ter prevent individuals with a history of violence 
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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