Capps Response to the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Protecting Women From Gun Violence

Statement

Today, Rep. Lois Capps (CA-24) released the following statement on the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on protecting women from gun violence:

I am so glad that the Senate Judiciary Committee held this hearing on this critical topic--keeping guns out of the hands of domestic abusers. It is unacceptable that more than a third of female murder victims are killed by an intimate partner. It is unacceptable that abusive dating partners who are just as dangerous as abusive spouses fall through the cracks of our firearm laws. And it is unacceptable that gaps remain when it comes to protecting victims of stalking from gun violence. The loopholes are known--we just need to act and close them to better protect victims of domestic violence. I hope this hearing is the beginning of real, tangible, bipartisan Congressional action on this important issue."

In the House, Capps has introduced H.R. 4906, the Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act, a companion to the Senate bills that inspired today's Judiciary Committee hearing, and which would close firearm loopholes for domestic abusers in three separate areas.

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