Firearms
According to the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, “…in 2000 approximately 40% of female homicide victims ages 15-50 were killed by either a current or former intimate partner. In over half (57%) of these cases, the perpetrator used a gun.” Among male victims 15-50 years of age, 3% were killed by either a current or former intimate partner. Half of the male intimate partner homicide victims were killed with a gun. Research has also shown that men who own a gun are more likely to threaten their partner’s life with it. There are current state laws that protect the sales of guns to violent criminals and sexual offenders.
Firearms and Intimate Partner Violence
Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research
See Website: www.jhsph.edu/gunpolicy