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Katherine A Vittes1, Susan B Sorenson
1School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, 3815 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6179, USA.
Abstract:
Persons under certain domestic violence restraining orders are prohibited by federal law from purchasing and possessing a firearm. We used administrative data from California to link 794426 restraining orders with 1388724 handgun purchase applications. We found that restrained persons were not a less law-abiding group in general, but they appeared to be repeatedly or serially abusive to intimate partners, and their handgun purchase rates were highest after their restraining orders expired.
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