BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Victims of domestic abuse are getting more protection after President Joe Biden signed gun legislation into law.
Federal laws prohibiting convicted domestic abusers from owning or purchasing guns only applied to those married or in a legal partnership. However, those convicted of the same crime in a nonmarital relationship were excluded from that ban. This was known as “the boyfriend loophole.”
Western New York advocates say passing this bill into law is a massive step in the right direction…