Homicide is a leading cause of death in women of childbearing age (1). Further, more than half of female homicides with a known perpetrator are committed by a current or former intimate partner (2). Firearm access in the home exacerbates the risk for homicide by an intimate partner (3). Although federal legislation, such as the Violence Against Women Act, restricts domestic abusers' access to firearms, state and local implementation of these regulations is highly variable.

In this issue, Díez and colleagues report a timely study that informs a simmering national debate about firearm-related policy (4). The researchers used data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports to investigate the effect of “relinquishment” laws on intimate partner homicide rates across all 50 states from 1991 to 2015. Relinquishment laws are those that prohibit firearm possession by domestic abusers who are subject to a restraining order and require abusers to surrender their firearms.

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枪支交出法：对妇女健康的承诺

杀人是育龄妇女死亡的主要原因（1）。此外，有超过一半的凶杀案是由现任或以前的亲密伴侣（2）实施的。在家中使用火器加剧了亲密伴侣的凶杀风险（3）。尽管联邦法律，例如《暴力侵害妇女法》，限制了家庭虐待者使用枪支的途径，但州和地方对这些法规的执行情况却存在很大差异。

在本期杂志中，Díez及其同事报告了一项及时的研究，该研究为全国范围内有关枪支相关政策的争论debate之以鼻（4）。研究人员使用了联邦调查局统一犯罪报告中的数据来调查“放行”法律对1991年至2015年所有50个州的亲密伴侣凶杀率的影响。放行法律是禁止受家庭虐待者拥有枪支的法律实施限制令，并要求滥用者交出枪支。