WASHINGTON A bipartisan proposal to expand background checks to more gun buyers seemed in jeopardy Monday as a growing number of Republican senators expressed opposition to the proposal, perhaps ...

Gun background checks in November slipped noticeably, interrupting the long run of elevated demand that has defined recent years. You are looking at a market that is still large by historical ...

Firearms are on display in a Salem gun shop. Advocates for gun owners and the Oregon State Police are debating the the efficacy of the state’s longstanding system for clearing gun background checks.

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 ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Connecticut officials are setting aside millions of dollars to address backlogs in background checks that have soared into the thousands since the December school shooting in ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut officials are setting aside millions of dollars to address backlogs in background checks that have soared into the thousands since the December school shooting in ...

WASHINGTON — The number of background checks run by the FBI for firearm purchases this Black Friday saw a 10 percent drop after last year's shopping day set a new single-day record. The bureau told ...