we had 14 republicans join in supporting this bill. the billions of dollars of investment in community mental health, obviously strengthening background checks for 18 to 21-year-olds, closing the so-called boyfriend loophole. there is also additional penalties for trafficking in guns, for so-called straw purchasers, that i think will be important and one of the things important to my home community and many others is $250 million for violence interruption programs, something that has been proven around the country to help prevent a cycle of gun violence at the community level. i want to focus on the so-called boyfriend loophole for a second. because one of the things that is interesting about this is this people have tried to get this closed before, this loophole, and haven t been able to. so why now? what made the difference this time? well, frankly, persistent engagement and i m so grateful to a wide range of senators, senators murphy and blumenthal
girlfriend, that is not a prohibited class of offences. so you have domestic abusers who are still able to buy guns, you have boyfriends who are subject to restraining orders against that girlfriend still being able to buy guns. it is almost too generous to call it a loophole, it s just a giant gap in the law, we are closing it. second, very surprising to people that straw purchasing, which is when somebody goes in and buys guns at a gun store for somebody that is actually prohibited from buying guns, a criminal, that is not a federal criminal offense. it is just a paperwork violation. so, the way that you unwind these gun trafficking rings is to go after the straw purchasers, and use the potential serious federal criminal offense so that they turn in the folks who are putting them up to it. so, law enforcement will tell you that one of the greatest ways that we stop the flow of illegal weapons into our city,
criminal, that is not a federal criminal offense. it is just a paperwork violation. so, the way that you unwind these gun trafficking wings is to go after the straw purchasers, and use the serious federal criminal offense so that they turn in the folks who are putting them up to it. so, law enforcement will tell you that one of the greatest ways that we stop the flow of illegal weapons into our city, it s to track down on these purchasing rings, and this allows us to do that. i don t to sound paranoid, but i ve heard this from other people, is there some catch here? is there some nefarious, like, devils clause in there, something terrible in there, is there gonna be money for mandatory gun ranges in every neighborhood, or something like that. am i missing something, here? i mean, listen, there may be
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