Whereas more than 1 in 3 women have experienced some form of intimate partner violence, including sexual violence, physical violence, or stalking, in their lifetime, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline; Whereas restricted access to reproductive justice places victims at greater risk of intimate partner violence, according to the National Women’s Law Center; Whereas the majority of intimate partner homicides follow previous incidents of physical violence against the victim; Whereas 61 percent of female homicide victims were killed by an intimate partner according to the Violence Policy Center; Whereas the U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence recognizes the importance of addressing gun violence in intimate partner relationships in order to address and prevent gender-based violence; Whereas 60 domestic violence and gender-based violence organizations filed a survivor-story amicus brief to the Supreme Court in the case of United States v. Rahimi, demonstrating that domestic violence abusers frequently engage in a pattern of abusive conduct that includes the use of firearms to control, terrorize, and sometimes kill their victims, family members, and members of society at large; Whereas, during the COVID–19 pandemic, domestic violence incidents rose nationally and globally, with this crisis disproportionately impacting women; Whereas, in February 2021, the National Commission on COVID–19 and Criminal Justice (NCCCJ) reported that incidents of domestic violence increased by 8.1 percent after lockdown orders were issued, police departments in communities across the country reported higher calls related to domestic violence and family violence, and domestic violence homicides increased by 4 percent in 2020; Whereas American Indian/Alaska Native, Black, and Latina women are disproportionately killed by firearm-related homicides