Most Mass Shootings Target Women and Families; Study Finds Men With Legal Guns Are to Blame

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5. an fyi re #4...restraining orders for stalking -are- mentioned in NICS criteria for prohibition

I'm not saying that the process for getting protective orders shouldn't be improved, or that more effort shouldn't be made to recover weapons when a protective order is issued.

Also, depending upon whether a conviction for stalking mentioned in #4 of above was a misdemeanor or a felony, the stalker would be prohibited from purchase if the sentence trigger of NICS were met...2 years for a misdemeanor and 1 year for a felony.

I completely agree that stalkers present a serious threat, a person convicted of stalking or under a restraining order not only shouldn't be able to purchase a firearm, I think they should be required to surrender all of them in their possession.

MY point isn't that prohibitions against stalking are adequate or that improvement shouldn't be made. My point is that although the statement in #4 may parse out to be technically true, the impression it gives is misleading in as much as it suggests there aren't prohibitions against gun purchases for stalkers.


http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/general-information/fact-sheet
From the list a bit past halfway thru that webpage:

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Federal Categories of Persons Prohibited From Receiving

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The federally prohibiting criteria are as follows:
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The subject of a protective order issued after a hearing in which the respondent had notice that restrains them from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner or child of such partner. This does not include ex parte orders.
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