Introduction
In 2015, there were 907,300 active protection orders in the National Crime Information Center for the United States, District of Columbia, and Territories, 36.8% (n=333,921) of which had a disqualifying Brady Indicator.
Nearly half of all women killed are murdered by a current or former male intimate partner.
In 2013, firearms were used in 53% of female and 40% of male intimate partner homicides which were recorded by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
