How effective was WA state's approach to separating guns from domestic violence?

According to the first of today's Five Studies About: Firearms and Domestic Violence

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Published Tuesdays (free) and Wednesdays (paid, more in-depth), Five Studies About is a tip sheet where I curate recent crime and justice studies related to one topic. Today’s topic is firearms and domestic violence.

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These new crime studies related to firearms and domestic violence were recently published by journals I monitor. Each of the following study listings include two quotations from the study’s abstract. The first quote discusses what they set out to find and the second describes what they found.

1. Firearm restrictions in domestic violence protection orders: Implementation, vetting, compliance, and enforcement [Criminology & Public Policy]

“We quantified the implementation of WA state's domestic violence (DV)-related firearm prohibitions (RCW9.41.800) by the courts and the Regional Domestic Violence Firearms Enforcement Unit (RDVFEU), a regional approach to compliance promotion.”

“These findings demonstrate RDVFEU implementation was associated with benefits at each stage of the protection order process with improvements in both judicial enforcement and respondent compliance. Overall, RDVFEU implementation was associated with improvements in granted orders to surrender weapons, respondent compliance, and relinquishment.”