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 ...

{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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The federal personnel agency whose records were plundered by hackers linked to China announced on Monday the temporary shutdown of a massive database used to update and store background investigation ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

For four months, Utah’s gun background check database lacked a chunk of criminal records pertaining to mental incompetence because of a database glitch in the state court system. And for about 13 ...