Virginians scramble to beat liberal gun grabs and bans

Any bans are expected to be challenged by Virginia and national Second Amendment advocates, and those cases sent as high as ...
Dallas Morning News

Background checks for gun sales actually work, just look at the data

Handguns sit in a display case for sale at a Pawn Shop in Mesquite, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. There is near universal agreement that certain people, those who have been convicted of a felony, ...
WSHU

Murphy reintroduces bill to expand background checks for gun purchases

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) has reintroduced legislation to expand background checks for gun purchases. The bill would ...
Morning Call PA

Your View: Background checks shouldn’t just be for gun buyers

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 ...

U.S. senators from Connecticut leading legislation to revamp background checks on gun sales nationwide

Democratic U.S. Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal are leading a bill to expand federal background checks to all ...
KTAR News

A new front for gun background checks: the ballot

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – After struggling to sway both state and federal lawmakers, proponents of expanding background checks for gun sales are now exploring whether they will have more success by taking ...
Virginia Mercury

Jones moves to salvage appeal after judge strikes down Virginia background-check law

With the clock ticking, Attorney General–elect Jay Jones filed a motion this week asking the Virginia Court of Appeals to ...
Yahoo

SC activists call for expanded gun background checks a decade after Mother Emanuel slaying

COLUMBIA — Nearly a decade ago, a “loophole” in the federal gun law made it possible for an avowed white supremacist with a history of drug use to buy a pistol, despite a drug arrest that should have ...
Houston Chronicle

Guns and background checks

Regarding "New legislation can help curb gun violence in the U.S." (Page B7, Friday),the essay by Barry Wolfer promoting increased background checks to decrease gun violence ignores an important ...
WTVF

Tennessee's gun background check may be missing key information. Now there's an effort to modernize it.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Before you can ever pull the trigger on a new gun purchase, you have to pass an instant background check. In Tennessee, the problem has become it's not always up-to-date and ...
American Rifleman

October Gun Sales Numbers Signals New Normal?

Estimated gun sales numbers reported from the month of October give us a few clues as to the state of the firearm industry ...
ABC News

Gun background checks double in Colorado amid coronavirus crisis, officials say

Preppers, housewives and ranchers are among those seeking firearms. The number of firearms background checks in Colorado has doubled compared with the same time last year, perhaps a sign of the unease ...