Whereas domestic violence perpetrated with a firearm disproportionately affects millions of American adults and children, with a particular impact on women; Whereas, according to recent data, nearly 92 percent of women killed by firearms in high-income countries in an average year are from the United States; Whereas firearms are used in nearly 66 percent of cases where women are killed by their intimate partners; Whereas every month an average of 57 women are killed with a firearm by an intimate partner; Whereas an American woman is killed with a firearm by a current or former partner around every 12 hours; Whereas approximately 59 percent of mass shootings in recent years were connected to instances of domestic or intimate partner violence; Whereas only 16 percent of victims in domestic violence-related mass shootings survive such incidents compared to 37 percent of victims in mass shootings unrelated to domestic violence; Whereas nearly 1 in 10 United States adults have experienced nonfatal firearm abuse at the hands of an intimate partner, such as being threatened directly with a firearm or by a partner who possessed or had easy access to a firearm; Whereas, when an abusive partner has access to a firearm, a female victim of such abuse is five times more likely to be killed; Whereas 80 percent of firearm intimate partner homicide victims are female; Whereas the deadly intersection of firearms and intimate partner violence affects all women, but it has a disproportionate impact on Black women, American Indian/Alaska Native women, and Hispanic women in the United States; Whereas 1 in 3 Hispanic women in the United States experience intimate partner violence during their lifetime; Whereas more than half of American Indian and Alaska Native women experience physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime