'Leaders who put NRA blood money over women's lives shouldn't be anywhere near our laws,' Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said.
Top Democratic presidential candidates have slammed the National Rifle Association over its reported bid to block a measure seeking to renew and expand the Violence Against Women Act. The gun lobby announced plans to lower grades for politicians who vote in favor of the legislation, which includes a measure to keep firearms out of the hands of abusers, according to reports.
50 women are shot to death by their partners every month in America. We have to face the fact that there is a deadly connection between violence against women and guns in America. Leaders who put NRA blood money over women's lives shouldn't be anywhere near our laws. https://t.co/u6YRDJVM6i The warning came after a bill to reauthorize and expand the act was introduced in the House on March 7. The law expired in late December during the partial government shutdown, but it received an extension following the approval of a short-term spending bill to reopen the government.
"Even when a weapon is not discharged, abusers often use the mere presence of a gun to coerce, threaten and terrorize their victims, inflicting enormous psychological damage," the coalition states on its website. The Violence Against Women Act reauthorization bill would seek to close that gap in legal protection, which is colloquially referred to as"the boyfriend loophole." Many states have sought to close this loophole by instituting their own laws preventing those with temporary domestic violence restraining orders from purchasing or possessing firearms.
"This is a policy that the gun lobby tends to have, that... domestic violence or convicted domestic violence should not be a prohibiting factor."
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