Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Expands definition of victim of domestic violence to a much broader category of citizens specifically to deny firearms ownership. Will end up further weakening 'Due Process' and could be unconstitutional.
Title: Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act
Subject: Assault and harassment offenses: Domestic violence and child abuse: Evidence and witnesses: Firearms and explosives: Crime and law enforcement
Description: Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act - Amends federal firearms provisions to expand the definition of: (1) "intimate partner" to include a dating partner or former dating partner; and (2) "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence" to include a misdemeanor offense that has, as an element, the use or attempted use of force, or the threatened use of a deadly weapon by a dating partner or former dating partner against the victim. Prohibits the sale or other disposition of a firearm or ammunition to, or the possession or receipt of a firearm by, a person who: (1) is subject to a court order, or an ex parte order, that restrains such person from harassing, stalking, threatening, or engaging in other conduct that would put an individual in reasonable fear of bodily injury, including an order issued at the request of an employer on behalf of its employee or at the request of an institution of higher education on behalf of its student, or from intimidating or dissuading a witness from testifying in court; or (2) has been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of stalking under federal, state, territorial, or tribal law or of a crime that involves conduct that would be proscribed by prohibitions against stalking if committed within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
Session: 113th Congress
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Last Action Date: July 21, 2014
Link: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:HN04906:@@@L&summ2=m&
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21 sponsors: Capps, Lois; Bishop, Timothy H.; Clark, Katherine M.; Esty, Elizabeth H.; Grijalva, Raul M.; Hahn, Janice; Hanabusa, Colleen W.; Himes, James A.; Robin Kelly; Lewis, John; Lowey, Nita M.; Maloney, Carolyn B.; McCollum, Betty; McNerney, Jerry; Moore, Gwen; Napolitano, Grace F.; Norton, Eleanor Holmes; Payne, Donald, Jr.; Richmond, Cedric L.; Slaughter, Louise McIntosh; Wasserman Schultz, Debbie
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Jul 21 2014 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations. |
| House | Jun 19 2014 | Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. |
| Type | Date | Federal Link | Text |
| Introduced | Jun 25 2014 | federal bill text | bill text |
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Chamber: H
Committee Name: Judiciary
There have not been any votes on this bill