Claim: The "boyfriend loophole" means that "if you commit a serious crime of domestic abuse against your wife, you can't get a gun, but if you do it against your girlfriend, you can."
Fact-check: Some abusive boyfriends can be barred from having a gun
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Tom Kertscher
Date published: 2019-08-22T00:00:00