Frattaroli Shannon, McGinty Emma E, Barnhorst Amy, Greenberg Sheldon
The Johns Hopklins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Gun Policy and Research, Baltimore, Maryland.
University of California Davis Health System, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Davis, California.
Behav Sci Law. 2015 Jun;33(2-3):290-307. doi: 10.1002/bsl.2173. Epub 2015 May 19.
The gun violence restraining order (GVRO) is a new tool for preventing gun violence. Unlike traditional approaches to prohibiting gun purchase and possession, which rely on a high threshold (adjudication by criminal justice or mental health systems) before intervening, the GVRO allows family members and intimate partners who observe a relative's dangerous behavior and believe it may be a precursor to violence to request a GVRO through the civil justice system. Once issued by the court, a GVRO authorizes law enforcement to remove any guns in the respondent's possession and prohibits the respondent from purchasing new guns. In September 2014, California's governor signed AB1014 into law, making California the first U.S. state to enact a GVRO law. This article describes the GVRO and the rationale behind the concept, considers case examples to assess the potential impact of the GVRO as a strategy for preventing gun violence, and reviews the content of the California law.
枪支暴力限制令（GVRO）是预防枪支暴力的一种新工具。与传统的禁止购买和持有枪支的方法不同，传统方法在干预之前依赖于高门槛（由刑事司法或心理健康系统进行裁决），而GVRO允许观察到亲属危险行为并认为这可能是暴力先兆的家庭成员和亲密伴侣通过民事司法系统申请GVRO。一旦法院发布，GVRO授权执法部门收缴被申请人持有的任何枪支，并禁止被申请人购买新枪。2014年9月，加利福尼亚州州长签署AB1014使其成为法律，加利福尼亚州成为美国第一个颁布GVRO法的州。本文介绍了GVRO及其背后的理念依据，通过案例分析评估GVRO作为预防枪支暴力策略的潜在影响，并审视了加利福尼亚州法律的内容。
