Domestic Violence & Firearms
The Metro Nashville Office of Family Safety (OFS) works to prevent and respond to gun violence in interpersonal violence through our work with clients helping them plan for safety when a gun is involved, our High Risk Intervention Panel (HRIP) coordinated case response, and through our multi-disciplinary system-wide DV & Firearms Dispossession Task Force to ensure firearms dispossession required by state and federal law of convicted domestic violence offenders and those with active Order of Protection against them.
To do this work, we have developed the following resources:
Firearms Safety Plan Tips Consejos para su Plan de Seguridad – Armas de Fuego
Judicial Firearms Dispossession Bench Card
MNPD Firearms & DV Pocket Card
Firearms Identification Form (Handout Version)
DV & Firearms Dispossession Task Force
DV Firearms Dispossession Task Force Members
- Metro Office of Family Safety
- Metro Nashville Police Department, Domestic Violence Division
- Metro Nashville District Attorney’s Office
- Metro Nashville Criminal Court Clerk’s Office
- General Sessions, Circuit Court, and Criminal Court judges
- Davidson County Sheriff’s Office
- General Sessions Probation
- TN State Probation and Parole
- US Attorney General’s Office
Firearms & Domestic Violence Statistics in Nashville
- 49% of victims who answered the LAP reported their abuser had or could easily get a firearm
- 37% of victims who answered the LAP indicated that their abuser had used or threatened them with a weapon previously
- 5,311 (or 44%) criminal defendants and OP respondents were flagged by OFS for owning a firearm or having used or threatened a victim with a firearm.
- 7 out of 11 domestic violence homicides in 2021 were perpetrated with a firearm.
- 9 out of 15 domestic violence homicides in 2020 were perpetrated with a firearm.
- 8 out of 14 domestic violence homicides in 2019 were perpetrated with a firearm.
- 10 out of 13 domestic violence homicides in 2018 were perpetrated with a firearm.
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To view and download the full 2021 Domestic Violence & Guns in Nashville info brief, click here.