“We must do something.” It’s what we always hear in the wake of senseless tragedies like the shooting that left 26 people dead in a Texas church, many of them children. Then the standoff begins. For ...

The federal government’s gun background check system used to be pretty lousy at stopping people with mental health problems from buying guns. In its first nine years of operation, the National Instant ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- While on leave from a mental health treatment program Farron Barksdale walked into a north Alabama gun shop Christmas Eve 2003 and bought a semi-automatic assault rifle that he ...

A bipartisan group of senators on Thursday introduced Senate Bill 2135, also known as the Fix NICS Act, which is designed to fix the reporting requirements for the NICS. This bill penalizes federal ...

Background checks for gun purchases are supposed to be quick, but in some parts of the country they are stretching from minutes into days or even weeks. When that happens, you are left in limbo, ...

On January 7, 2014, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for the purpose of modifying the Health Insurance Portability and ...

Twenty years ago, a pair of students killed a teacher and a dozen of their classmates a high school in Littleton, Colo. The shooters at Columbine High School used semiautomatic weapons and sawed-off ...

Gun purchase application image from the FBI's NICS page. The shooting rampage last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has reopened the debate over loopholes and flaws ...

Potentially thousands of people who should not have guns are able to buy them because of an apparent failure of federal record-keeping. Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered a review this week of the ...