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Nationally, an average of 70 women a month are killed with a gun by an intimate partner, according to
“What’s recent?” Lal asked. “Particularly when the violence has been ongoing since and this is the first time someone has chosen to speak up.”In Texas, similar to federal laws, if you have been convicted of any felony you are not allowed to own firearms for five years following release. If you are a respondent under a protective order, you cannot own a firearm through the duration of the order.
She explained the definition of dating partner is important, but will not be used in domestic violence misdemeanor charges in Texas. “We have these very specific things that tell us when these people shouldn’t have had a firearm in the first place,” Lal said. “But we also see that firearms violence and firearms homicides in dv [domestic violence] situations are on the rise.”
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