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A bipartisan pair of senators announced an agreement Wednesday to expand background checks on commercial firearm sales, a compromise that could bolster the chances of a gun-control package passing 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 ...

Kevin Pollard, 21, of Redding reloads his shotgun at a public shooting range in Redding, California, February 19, 2013. Shasta County has the highest per-capita rate of gun background checks, ...

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 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 ...

In an effort to prevent possibly dangerous people with mental illness from buying guns, Tennessee in 2013 passed a law requiring court clerks to report involuntary mental health hospitalizations and ...

The FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System reported on Thursday that firearm background checks rose 13.9% on a sequential basis in March to 2,450,414. Firearm background checks were ...

U.S. Senators 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 ...