NEW: The House has voted to reauthorize a 25-year-old law that helps victims of domestic and sexual violence, despite complaints by Republicans that Democrats were politicizing the popular law by expanding gun control
The bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act includes a provision making it easier to take away guns from violent offenders even if they are not a spouse or domestic partner. The amendment closes the so-called"boyfriend loophole" by barring those convicted of abusing, assaulting or stalking a current or former dating partner from owning a firearm.
Pelosi said the gun-control provisions were"common-sense reforms that will save lives and that no one should object to." "The gun control lobby and anti-gun politicians are intentionally politicizing the Violence Against Women Act as a smoke screen to push their gun control agenda," said NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker, who called the actions of Democratic leaders"appalling."
Lloyd called the gun-control amendment"truly a life-saving provision," adding that gaps in federal law allowing abusers and stalkers to obtain guns are"a key driver of the staggering levels of lethal violence against women in the U.S." An estimated 4.5 million women have been threatened with a gun by an intimate partner, and nearly 1 million women alive today have been shot, or shot at, by an intimate partner, Lloyd said.
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