David Strang, an emergency physician with 35 years of experience, believes the bill poses a serious risk due to the mental health information that would be shared with the federal government ...

Closing Critical Gun Background Check Loophole Gains Bipartisan Support in Texas After a ProPublica-Texas Tribune investigation found courts failed to report juvenile mental health ...

Lawmakers tried in 2009 to require that the state report all court-ordered mental health hospitalizations to a federal gun background check system. Juveniles have been left out.

News 9 Investigates reached out to several state and federal agencies but has not received a clear answer about what – if any – mental health information is shared to databases that are used ...

For four months, Utah’s gun background check database lacked a chunk of criminal records pertaining to mental incompetence because of a database glitch in the state court system. And for about ...

Updated at 5 p.m.: Revised to reflect that the gunman was blocked from a gun purchase for a "mental health issue." ODESSA — The gunman in a West Texas rampage that left seven dead obtained his ...

Nikolas Cruz wasn’t old enough to sip a beer, but federal law allowed the 19-year-old to buy a weapon powerful enough to kill 17 people in a matter of minutes. He’s now facing murder ch… ...

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick along with Rep. Lois Frankel agree that universal background checks for gun purchases and expanded mental health services are part of the solution.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- May is Mental Health Awareness Month and our State is facing an unprecedented mental health crisis. It's devastating young people, those from every background ...

Trump Overturns a Mental Health Regulation on Gun Purchases Published Feb 15, 2017 at 4:49 PM EST Updated Apr 14, 2017 at 5:41 PM EDT ...