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Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (470 words) |
 | The Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban (1996) was an amendment to the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997 which was passed by the 104th US Congress in the Fall of 1996. |
| Officially known as 'Gun Ban for Individuals Convicted of a Misdemeanor Crime of Domestic Violence' -- 18 U.S.C. ยง 922(g)(9)'[1], 'Public Law 104-208'[2] and is often referred to as the Lautenberg Amendment after its sponsor, Frank Lautenberg. |
| This law bans shipment, transport, ownership and use of guns or ammunition by individuals convicted of misdemeanor or felony domestic violence. |
| National Network to End Domestic Violence (2063 words) |
| Chairman, when Congress passed the Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban in 1996, those who work with domestic violence victims applauded the law as another example that Congress and the President are firmly committed to ensuring the safety of battered women and their children. |
| And, while critics allege that the domestic violence offender gun ban is unfair because it applies retroactively to convictions that occurred before the effective date of the law, the evidence supports the law. |
| In a survey of post-shooting trauma and domestic violence, researchers found that 13.85 percent of police officers involved in a shooting incident in which they discharged their firearm or were fired upon reported incidences of marital violence ranging from slapping the officer's partner to threatening the partner with a service revolver. |
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