The laws nudges the rules closer to “universal” background checks — requiring checks for all sales — but still falls short of a nationwide mandate, which the Biden Administration wants to ...

The surge in gun sales during the pandemic has waned in 2022. Unadjusted firearm background checks – a rough proxy of gun sales – surged from 28.4 million in 2019 to 39.7 million in 2020 (and ...

Can there be a solution to America’s gun problems? Anderson Cooper looks at both sides of the debate in “Guns Under Fire: an AC360º Town Hall Special” Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on CNN.

WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Enhanced background checks have blocked thousands of gun sales to people under the age of 21 and those convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence crimes in the past ...

Federal law barred Jody Lee Hunt from ever owning a gun. But when he wanted to buy one, it wasn’t hard: He found a seller on Facebook. Mr. Hunt was a felon who had spent time in prison for ...

But I think, you know, there's some appetite to improve the background check system to at least what they call commercial sales. I believe we need it on all sales. FADEL: So realistically ...

The background checks bill would expand federal oversight of gun sales, requiring unlicensed and private sellers to conduct background checks. While gun sales between licensed sellers and buyers a ...

See the sources for this fact-check The day after the House passed legislation to expand background checks for gun sales, a lengthy Facebook questioned the popularity of the measure. The headline ...

on Tuesday reintroduced bipartisan House legislation that would require background checks for all firearm sales. The House first passed the bill in 2019, one year after a mass shooting at ...

Sen. Jack Reed, Jan. 16: According to the Brady Campaign, about 40 percent of gun sales happen with no background checks. We can do better and must do better. (Source: Press release.) Rep.

2.1 million background checks have been denied out of 118 million requests, or almost 2%. From gun hater to NRA-loving mom The use of the NICS however is not required for private sales of firearms ...

A federal gun law passed last year gave the Biden administration a powerful new tool to increase background checks on “private” firearms sales. Will the administration use it? By Serge F.