The FBI’s background-check system is missing millions of records of criminal convictions, mental illness diagnoses and other flags that would keep guns out of potentially dangerous hands, a gap that ...

Dylann Roof was able to buy a gun two months before the Charleston church massacre because of a background check error. A new plan by the FBI aims... A major change ...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered a wide-ranging review of the FBI background check database after the Air Force neglected to file the criminal history of the gunman who killed 26 people at a ...

{mosads}This popular myth has helped fuel the ongoing debate among policymakers in Washington regarding the use of background checks for everything from immigration reform to employment screening. In ...

This claim misrepresented a 2017 Washington Post report about hundreds of thousands of "fugitives from justice" being purged from the background check database for gun purchases. The report did not ...

Experts say new DoJ program intended to track backgrounds of federal police unlikely to solve problem of ‘wandering officers’ A new US justice department database intended to track the backgrounds of ...

A May 1 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a screenshot of a 2018 news article with the headline "Obama Removed 500,000 Pedophiles From Background Check Database." The article's subhead ...

Tens of thousands of people wanted by law enforcement officials have been removed this year from the FBI criminal background check database that prohibits fugitives from justice from buying guns. The ...

Even as lawmakers look for ways to curb gun violence, the federal government and various states haven't sent millions of mental-health and drug abuse records to the database that's designed to keep ...

A major change that aims to keep more weapons out of the wrong hands is in the works for the FBI's gun background check process. Examiners will be given access to a large, previously untapped database ...