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 ...

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 ...

After the Parkland shooting, Trump expressed support for background checks for gun purchases and greater ... pass their own red-flag laws, said in a phone interview Wednesday.

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 ...

“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.

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 ...

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 ...

The gap means some individuals could potentially have a criminal conviction that would disqualify them from buying a gun, but the case may not show up in a background check. Experts say it’s ...

Tony Evers is proposing in the 2023-'25 biennial budget that all handgun purchases and transfers, "with certain exceptions," require background checks to be done through a federally licensed gun ...

President Joe Biden on Monday called for background checks and other gun-control steps in the wake of a shooting at a bank in downtown Louisville, Ky. “It’s long past time that we require safe ...