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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

“Limiting access to guns for veterans and other VA beneficiaries who may be in crisis by reporting them to the background check ... said in a phone interview. “The step that ends up making ...

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 ...

EAGAN, Minn. – A new law that took effect earlier this week expands background checks to most gun transfers in Minnesota, whether it's a private sale, gift, or loan. The provision, which was ...

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 ...

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 ...