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 ...

electronically or by phone after the prospective buyer fills out a form. A survey found that 40% of gun owners weren’t subject to a background check because they purchased guns outside of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tuesday, Trump spoke on the phone with the NRA ... the imposition of stricter background checks for firearm purchases, but strife at the organization gave gun control advocates hope that stricter ...

Over 200,000 background checks for gun purchases were initiated on Black ... Then the seller submits the information to the FBI via a toll-free phone line or over the internet, and the agency ...

“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 ...

Congressional Democratic leaders warned President Trump on Sunday that any proposal on gun control must include a House-passed bill to expand background ... morning by phone with Trump, who ...

Background checks for gun sales in Oregon remained high last year but did not top the state’s record year in 2020, according to a new state police report. Oregon State Police last year conducted ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed Tuesday morning to bring to the Senate floor legislation passed by the House that would require background checks for most gun sales and transfers.

“You don’t want to gouge gun owners,” said Shira Goodman, executive director of CeaseFirePA, which supports background checks ... had to call a state police phone bank to run checks.

A 2017 study by Northeastern University and the Harvard School of Public Health found that 22% of recent gun transfers were done without a background check, nationwide. Nine percent of these were ...