I'm Magna Chakrabardi, this is on point.

On June 25, 2022, advocates against domestic violence won a decades long fight

when President Joe Biden announced that the so-called boyfriend loophole had been closed.

Well this bill doesn't do everything I want.

It does include actions I've long called for that are going to save lives. It funds crisis intervention including red flags.

President Biden there when he signed the bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

The Act now prohibits convicted domestic violence abusers from owning or buying a gun if they

dated the victim.

The prohibition used to apply only if the abuser was married, shared a home, or had a child

with the victim.

This is a change that advocates had been pushing for since 1996,

given that at least 600 women in America

are shot and killed by an intimate partner every year and half of the

shooters had dated but not married their victims. But there was little to celebrate

for those advocates because just two days earlier, on June 23rd,

2022, the United States Supreme Court made a ruling that could dismantle many of the country's

firearms restrictions, including those meant to protect domestic

violence victims.

And on this coming Tuesday, November 7th, the Supreme Court is set to hear another case that

has the potential to grant firearms access

to hundreds of thousands of domestic abusers who are currently prohibited from

owning a gun. In this special podcast extra on points Paige Sutherland has that story.

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