The FBI boasts on its website that it takes about eight minutes to process a background check over the phone. If a gun dealer uses an online check, it takes less than two minutes. Critics point ...

The White House and Capitol Hill are considering a phone app connected to the National Instant Criminal Background Checks (NICS) as one of the options in their discussions for plans to reduce gun ...

Certain hot-spot states are helping to account for the sudden, upward swing in background checks. In California, for example, many gun dealers have stopped answering the phones out of an inability ...

“I’ve got to dial the phone, and dial the phone and ... She also is unsure why a background check needs to be performed on each purchase. March 2021:New legislation may increase gun sales amid already ...