efforts to draft gun legislation in the senate have hit a snag, according to lead negotiators from both sides. republican john cornyn of texas and democrat chris murphy of connecticut remained optimistic yesterday but both acknowledged issues with turning the framework of a potential bill into actual legislative text. i m starting to get a little concerned though that there are a couple of issues that need to be settled before we can reach an agreement. one of the issues has to do, is whether the funds that we will vote for will be available to states that don t have red flag laws, but do have crisis intervention programs. the other issue has to do with the way that nontraditional relationships are handled in terms of domestic violence, misdemeanors. it s got to be clear, and it s got to be, you know, something that can be actually applied, and because we re talking about
republicans, ten democrats. they did agree on an outline, but they are trying to turn that into detailed legislative text, which is proving to be a difficult issue. the two issues they re trying to sort out, red flag laws. these are the laws that states can adopt to essentially allow authorities to take away firearms from individuals who are deemed a risk. there s talk in this legislation to provide funding for states to adopt these laws, and also, the issue of the so-called boyfriend loophole, closing that loophole, allowing people, domestic partners who have been convicted of misdemeanor offenses related to domestic abuse, denying their access to firearms. but cornyn indicated there is still disagreement about how to deal with that red flag law funding as well as how to define who would fall under that so-called boyfriend loophole. one of the issues has to do with whether the funds that we will vote for will be available to states that don t have red flag laws but do have crisis