As a new state Office of Financial Management report recommends, the Washington State Patrol should take over the job to create a single consistent statewide background-check system. The current ...

rely on background checks. Loftis said many police agencies across the state are in the same stymied situation, with no ability to complete the checks. The Washington Department of Social and ...

The online system needed for the Washington State Patrol (WSP) to complete background checks has been restored. The Administrative Office of the Courts says the system was fixed after a two-week ...

Previously, there were no additional fees for firearm background checks. That fee would go toward the overall cost of this program, which could be more than $10 million a year. Washington State ...

OLYMPIA — In 2017, Washington law-enforcement agencies and the FBI conducted a combined 580,000 background checks on gun buyers in the state ... FBI declared it would no longer conduct so ...

Universal background checks for gun buyers became law in Washington state, the first such measure to be passed by popular vote in any state in recent memory. “As the NRA will tell you ...