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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 ...

Some are wondering if enhanced background checks are targeting law-abiding citizens, and not cracking down on criminals. The Biden administration says because of the enhanced checks, crime is down.

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 ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down California’s first-in-the-nation law requiring background checks for ...

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 ...

Background checks alone might not be enough to reduce shooting deaths in the United States, a new study warns. States that require gun permits, rather than relying solely on universal background ...

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 ...

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 ...