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Ahead of the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in United States v. Rahimi, to decide whether people under domestic violence protective orders have a constitutional right to own firearms,Storm Ervin and Malore Dusenbery argue for TCR’s Viewpoints series that if SCOTUS increases access to guns for people under restraining orders for domestic violence, then advocates for survivors of domestic violence and people working in the criminal legal system need to work together – quickly – to find better ways to prevent domestic violence from occurring in the first place.

A statewide domestic violence hotline receiving nearly 30,000 calls in 2021 increased 5 percent in 2021—the second annual increase—and the number of murders and shootings involving domestic relations in Chicago increased by nearly two-thirds from 2020,