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

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During the Trump assassination attempt, the shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, used an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle legally purchased by his father. Although it appears that the son would have ...

Democratic U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal are leading a bill to expand federal background checks to all gun sales made in the United States, officials said. The legislation, called the ...

Gun policy has become so politically divisive that lawmakers have found it nearly impossible to pass federal legislation on it in recent years. A window opened in 2022 after a mass school shooting in ...

THE FACE OF LONG ODDS AT THE STATEHOUSE. TWO HIGH PROFILE GUN CONTROL DEBATES ARE BEING ROLLED INTO ONE PIECE OF LEGISLATION. HOUSE BILL 56 WOULD REQUIRE A BACKGROUND CHECK FOR ALMOST ALL FIREARM ...

Licensed gun dealers would be able to run their employees through the government’s background check system under a new rule the Biden administration proposed Wednesday. Under current rules, dealers ...

Gun policy is increasingly being written not just in legislatures and at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, but in the checkout line. As you walk into a gun shop or click through ...

Gun control efforts in California took a big hit on Thursday as the 9th Circuit Court struck down a state law requiring background checks to buy ammunition. While some say this is a step back for gun ...

In response to a murder investigation that revealed a confiscated gun had been mistakenly returned to a man convicted of abusing his girlfriend, the Cape Girardeau County prosecutor is trying to add ...