Golden State Warriors Coach Steve Kerr gave an emotional speech hours after the mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, pleading with lawmakers to pass legislation to expand background checks for ...

Multiple polls conducted over the years have shown that Americans overwhelmingly support additional background checks on would-be buyers for gun purchases. On May 24, 2022, a gunman entered Robb ...

Delaware officials say there’s growing support for one piece of gun legislation recently introduced in Gov. Jack Markell’s package of gun bills designed to keep firearms out of the hands of dangerous ...

New polling released Friday shows Americans overwhelmingly support universal background checks for gun sales. According to the Quinnipiac University poll, 88% of Americans nationwide support the ...

{mosads}Under the present system, individuals can easily avoid a background check by purchasing guns from private, unlicensed sellers at gun shows, over the internet, and basically anywhere else ...

What gets checked in a background check? When someone goes to a federally licensed dealer to buy a gun, they are subject to a background check through the National Instant Criminal Background Check ...

Many Democrats running for president have called for universal background checks, which would extend such checks to private sales, including at gun shows. Buttigieg cited two polls that showed ...

Beth Wessel-Kroeshell stated on Jan. 22 in a published article that 86 percent of Americans and 82 percent of gun owners “support requiring all gun buyers to pass a background check” regardless of how ...

In back-to-back appearances on Meet the Press, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre went another round in their duel over proposed gun legislation. Bloomberg is pushing ...

More than three-quarters of Republican voters support universal background checks for gun purchases—along with even greater majorities of independents and Democrats—as the House is set to vote on ...