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Backers of an initiative seeking universal background checks on gun sales have hit the airwaves with the first commercial in what’s expected to be an expensive and hotly contested campaign. The ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The loophole allowing gun buyers to obtain firearms before federal background checks are complete has sparked renewed debate among lawmakers. This loophole enabled the Mother ...

From Judge Trevor McFadden's opinion last week in Sedita v. U.S. (D.D.C.): "Where was the Judge whom he had never seen? Where was the High Court, to which he had never penetrated?" Franz Kafka, The ...

A bipartisan pair of senators announced an agreement Wednesday to expand background checks on commercial firearm sales, a compromise that could bolster the chances of a gun-control package passing the ...

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.

SEATTLE (AP) — Recent mass shootings have spurred Congress to try to improve the nation’s gun background check system that has failed on numerous occasions to keep weapons out of the hands of ...

To Wes Morosky, president of Duke’s Sports Shop in New Castle, Penn., the universal background check proposal now under debate in Congress would be a boon for business. “It’d keep everyone on the same ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Colorado’s gun background check system "worked as designed" when the Boulder attack suspect was prevented from buying a gun in the months before the attack, the Colorado Bureau of ...

A national gun violence prevention group said Thursday that Nevada’s red flag law could have been used to limit Las Vegas resident Shane Tamura’s access to a firearm before he fatally shot four people ...

THE FACE OF LONG ODDS AT THE STATEHOUSE. TWO HIGH PROFILE GUN CONTROL DEBATES ARE BEING ROLLED INTO ONE PIECE OF LEGISLATION. HOUSE BILL 56 WOULD REQUIRE A BACKGROUND CHECK FOR ALMOST ALL FIREARM ...