Everytown: Nearly 1 in 4 domestic firearm murder-suicides committed by someone prohibited from owning gun

Nearly 25 percent of intimate partner homicide-suicides committed with a firearm were perpetrated by those who were prohibited from owning a gun, according to a focus group analysis by Everytown for Gun Safety released Thursday.

Everytown for Gun Safety, an advocacy group, conducted focus groups with 43 survivors of intimate partner homicide-suicide, a crime that occurs more than daily in the U.S. According to the reports of the survivors, almost one in four of the perpetrators “were...