Posted on Jun 29, 2022
Closing the 'boyfriend loophole' with gun legislation
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President Biden signed the most significant bipartisan gun legislation in decades into law over the weekend. It comes after last month’s mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas.
The bill includes funding for mental health services and school security. But lawmakers also say it’ll close what’s known as “the boyfriend loophole.” That means dating partners convicted of domestic abuse will no longer be able to purchase firearms, rather than just spouses and former spouses.
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar has been pushing to close the loophole for a decade. She told NPR on Monday:
The bill includes funding for mental health services and school security. But lawmakers also say it’ll close what’s known as “the boyfriend loophole.” That means dating partners convicted of domestic abuse will no longer be able to purchase firearms, rather than just spouses and former spouses.
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar has been pushing to close the loophole for a decade. She told NPR on Monday:
Closing the 'boyfriend loophole' with gun legislation
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Those laws are on the books and Klobuchar knows it. Real brave of her to stand up and try to seel the publin on a law thats on the books. Why not say lets put you girlfriend in jail or prison for your straw purchase for a firearm for her boyfriend? That would make a believer out of her and no more girlfriend till she served her time
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SrA John Monette
Those laws are not on the books. The law usually referred only to domestic partners who live at the same address.
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