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Katherine A. Vittes, PhD and Susan B. Sorenson, PhD

At the time of the study, Katherine A. Vittes was with the School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Susan B. Sorenson is with the School of Social Policy and Practice and the Department of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Susan B. Sorenson, PhD, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, 3815 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6179 (e-mail: sorenson{at}sp2.upenn.edu).

Persons under certain domestic violence restraining orders are prohibited by federal law from purchasing and possessing a firearm. We used administrative data from California to link 794426 restraining orders with 1388724 handgun purchase applications. We found that restrained persons were not a less law-abiding group in general, but they appeared to be repeatedly or serially abusive to intimate partners, and their handgun purchase rates were highest after their restraining orders expired.