The background check system for gun purchases is a mess. Republicans have criticized Democratic presidents for failing to ...

When someone goes to buy a shotgun or rifle, a licensed firearms dealer initiates a background check through the FBI's database. Those checks are often quickly returned, and if the purchaser is ...

DoJ announces changes including ‘loophole’ that allows people to buy guns at shows without background check ...

Gun background checks in November slipped noticeably, interrupting the long run of elevated demand that has defined recent years. You are looking at a market that is still large by historical ...

Salesmen Ted Shore, right, and Ian Mahathey assemble a shotgun for a customer at Hyatt Gun Shop in Charlotte in 2021. David T. Foster III dtfoster@charlotteobserver.com North Carolina bucked a ...

DENVER (KDVR) — The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is shedding light on how an Egyptian national living in Colorado Springs was denied a firearm purchase before a firebombing attack on a pro-Israel ...

But I-1639 isn't the only change coming. This year, the FBI — which manages the nationwide background-checks database — announced it would end its so-called "courtesy checks" that allow Washington's ...