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 ...

Jay Inslee in January intended to reduce gun-related deaths and violence in the state. The report describes flaws in how Washington conducts gun-purchase background checks. People buying so-called ...

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 ...

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 ...

Private sellers and buyers should be required to visit a Washington state gun dealer to conduct a background check and process a gun sale. Chelsea Parsons is Associate Director of Crime and ...

A new gun-control law that takes effect in Washington ... state becomes the latest battleground over gun regulation. Initiative 594, which passed with 59% of the vote in November, requires ...