Shoppers hunting for Black Friday deals seemed to include a record number of those in the market for firearms; the FBI says it fielded 203,086 background check requests for gun purchases on the day ...

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 ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday he may call for a vote on legislation toughening the laws on background checks for gun purchases following the fatal shooting of two police officers and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The national News21 Initiative brings together a select group of student journalists to produce a major national investigation into a topic of wide interest. This year, News21 has documented the ...

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 ...

Gun wall rack with rifles (Stock photo by Artas via Getty Images) Lawmakers in the state House passed legislation that would require background checks for the sale and transfer of rifles and shotguns, ...

Guns cannot be legally sold and transferred to Nevadans without a concealed carry permit currently as the cyberattack that occurred last month has crippled the state's background check system.