I am pleased that my amendment was accepted. and is part of the crime bill package that the Senate will approve today. Under current Federal law. certain persons are banned from possessing a firearm. These "prohibited persons" include convicted felons. drug addicts. illegal aliens. those who have been found mentally incompetent. those who have been dishonorably discharged from the Armed Forces. and those who have renounced their U.S. citizenship. My amendment adds to this category those individuals who are subject to a court restraining order for harassing. stalking. threatening. or engaging in other such conduct. and whom the court has deemed a credible threat to another persons safety. There have been far. far too many dreadful cases in which innocent peopleand usually they are womenhave been wounded or killed by a former boyfriend or girlfriend. partner. or other intimate using a gundespite the fact that the attacker was subject to a restraining order.
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