Firearms background checks were up in four states the month before voters there will consider ballot initiatives that would set stricter standards for obtaining guns or ammunition. The National ...

As many as 30 people who are prohibited from possessing a firearm in Maryland were able to purchase one without undergoing a background check, the WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team discovered.Guns are being sold ...

North Carolina bucked a nationwide trend last year with gun purchases, registering more federal firearm background checks in 2023 than it did in 2022. In fact, North Carolina recorded the largest ...

OLYMPIA — Washington voters and the federal government this year delivered big changes to the state’s background-check system designed to keep people who are not allowed to have guns from buying them.

A federal judge on Thursday blocked a California law requiring background checks for people buying ammunition, issuing a sharply worded rebuke of "onerous and convoluted" regulations he said violate ...