Pod extra: A pro-gun community in Louisiana leads the charge on disarming domestic abusers

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Some states and local law enforcement agencies have taken it upon themselves to develop their own firearm hand-in laws that they can effectively enforce. That’s happened in California, Washington state, Colorado and Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.

On Point producer Paige Sutherland has more on what's happening in Louisiana and the gap in America's gun laws.

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0:18.6	This is On Point.
0:19.6	I'm Megna Chakrabardi with a bonus podcast episode for you.
0:23.6	We've got an important follow up to our recent story about the so-called
0:27.5	boyfriend, Lupe Hall.
0:29.8	Back in 1968, Congress passed the Gun Control Act.
0:33.4	The most comprehensive gun control law of its time.
0:36.7	About 30 years later, the act was amended to include this important provision.
0:42.2	Intimate partners convicted of a felony or misdemeanor domestic violence case
0:47.2	can no longer own or buy a gun.
0:51.4	The amendment defines intimate partner as a current or former spouse.
0:56.4	Someone living or having lived with the victim or has a child with them.
1:01.5	But it leaves out an entire group.
1:04.3	Convicted abusers who dated but never lived with the victim.
1:10.0	That is the boyfriend, Lupe Hall.
1:12.6	And each year, more than 600 women in the United States are shot and killed by an intimate partner
1:18.5	and about half of them had dated but not married.
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