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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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Mar 21, 2015 · loophole. A way around an obstruction that would otherwise keep a person from obtaining a goal. This can apply literally and metaphorically and most often applied when bending the rules. Person 1: I am not allowed to visit my friend in college because I am not accompanied by an adult .
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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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Jun 25, 2022 · In popular terminology, it closed the "boyfriend loophole." It’s a major change. In 2020, out of all the murder victims among intimate partners — which includes divorced and homosexual couples...
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.
Jun 13, 2024 · The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) was supposed to close – or at least narrow – the “Boyfriend Loophole,” so called because it often allowed abusers to purchase guns simply because they were dating, not married to, their victims.
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.
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.
