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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Kelly Rissman

‘It’s open season on women’: Domestic violence survivor warns on gun laws before SCOTUS

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Laura Morris has a very personal reason to be disturbed about a case being heard by the Supreme Court on Tuesday concerning a domestic abusers’ ability to own a gun: a hole in her shoulder

That bullet wound is from where her husband shot her three decades ago, when the federal law that prevents abusers from possessing firearms didn’t exist. Now, Ms Morris is fighting to protect other domestic violence victims from suffering her fate — or worse.

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