Speech #1050128748

I rise today to introduce a bill to add a provision to the Brady Handgun Background Check Form to enforce the prohibition that persons under a restraining order for harassing. stalking or threatening an intimate partner or child cannot purchase a gun. The Background Check Form. used by law enforcement and gun dealers to enforce the Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act. currently requires a purchaser to answer questions on whether he or she falls into one of the categories prohibited from purchasing a gun. The form asks whether the purchaser has been convicted of a felony. has been declared mentally defective or been committed to a mental institution. is an illegal alien. fugitive from justice or an illegal user of drugsall of which would disqualify the person from lawfully purchasing a gun. However. there is one very important disqualification not listed on this form. The 1994 Crime Act prohibits a person under a restraining order for harassing. stalking or threatening an intimate partner or the child of that partner from purchasing a gun.