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      • The boyfriend loophole is a gap in American gun legislation that allows physically abusive ex-romantic partners and stalkers with previous convictions or restraining orders to access guns.
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  1. The boyfriend loophole is a gap in American gun legislation that allows physically abusive ex-romantic partners and stalkers with previous convictions or restraining orders to access guns.

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  3. Jun 23, 2022 · Federal law prevents some convicted domestic abusers from owning a gun, depending on their relationship to the victim. The new gun safety bill would expand that definition to include dating...

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  4. Jun 25, 2022 · What the new law does. The law tackled the loophole for intimate partners by adding people in a "dating relationship" to the scope of the gun ban. It defined the term as people...

  5. Jun 19, 2022 · What is the ‘boyfriend loophole’? The “boyfriend loophole” deals with whether unmarried partners can have guns if they were found guilty of violence against a dating partner.

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  6. Jul 1, 2022 · The boyfriend loophole meant someone dating the survivor who had never lived with the survivor and didn’t have a child with them could legally own a gun — even after having been convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence crime.

  7. Jun 14, 2022 · The loophole refers to the fact that while federal law bars firearm purchases for those convicted of domestic violence against someone they have been married to, lived with, or with whom they...

  8. Apr 8, 2022 · It left out an entire group of intimate partners — convicted abusers who had been dating but never living with the victim. They can still legally own firearms. That is the so-called “boyfriend loophole.” In 2018, Democrats and survivor advocates saw an opportunity to close the boyfriend loophole.

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