FACT CHECK: Mike Bloomberg gun control affiliate Shannon Watts claimed there is no background check required for the purchase of rifles and other long guns in Texas.
A report from the Washington Post indicates federal agents believe they have compiled sufficient evidence to charge Hunter Biden over an alleged false statement on a gun purchase background check.
U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras, a President Barack Obama appointee, ruled Tuesday against plaintiff David Codrea’s request to have federal records regarding Hunter Biden’s 2018 gun purchase released.
One person is dead and multiple others injuries after an early morning shooting in the Canadian capital city of Ottawa.
On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared that the Senate would take up gun control in the wake of the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings, with expanded background checks “front and center.” He added, “What we can’t do is fail to pass something.”
Federal authorities arrested 24-year-old Ethan Kollie after he allegedly purchased the rifle the Dayton, Ohio, shooter used in his August 3 attack.
Police say the man who opened fire in the gun-free Henry Pratt Company facility in Aurora, Illinois, had his Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) card revoked and possessed his gun illegally.
July 2018 saw the second highest number of background checks for gun sales for any July in history.
Law enforcement sources indicate that Capital Gazette shooting suspect Jarrod Ramos used a pump shotgun that was legally purchased.
In a letter written to correspond with Saturday’s student march for gun control former NBA great Steve Nash claimed the USA averages a mass shooting “once a day.”
Citibank used a March 22 “Commercial Firearms Policy” to announce a requirement that gun stores quit selling “high capacity” magazines in order to do business with the bank.
President Donald Trump took on the National Rifle Association (NRA) — and politicians who support it — in a free-wheeling, bipartisan, televised discussion on gun laws with members of Congress at the White House Wednesday.
There is one gun law that might prevent mass shootings, but the left will not allow us to try it: namely, allowing teachers to carry guns.
The Arkansas Dept. of Health warns would-be applicants for medical marijuana cards they can have the card or gun buying ability, not both.
The previous July record was set in 2015, when there were 1,600,832 background checks. But the FBI reports that July 2016 there were 2,197,169–an increase of nearly 600,000 checks.
Hunter’s Warehouse says it sold 30,000 AR-15s during the first seven days following the Orlando, Florida, terrorist attack.
A Chicago journalist dedicated to investigating the ease with which one can acquire an AR-15 had his purchase denied based on a “domestic battery” charge uncovered by the gun store.
On Tuesday, United Nations human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said current U.S. gun laws “lack rational justification.”
FBI figures show that March 2016 was the 11th consecutive month of record background checks for retail gun sales in the U.S.
The owner of Downs Bait and Guns is being praised for refusing a gun sale to a suspected mass shooter who passed an FBI background check for his firearm.
On Sunday Breitbart News reported that Kalamazoo gunman Jason Brian Dalton was an Uber driver who had “passed a background check” to work with the company. Later that same say, the Daily Mail revealed that Dalton was actually on duty when the shootings that left six dead occurred. It appears Dalton allegedly began shooting innocents in between fares around 6 p.m. Saturday night.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch wrote Texas Governor Greg Abbott, and other governors, and asked for help with President Obama’s unilateral gun control initiatives.
On August 26 Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) spokesman Thomas Faison confirmed that Virginia gunman Vester Lee Flanagan bought his gun “weeks ago” and that “he apparently passed a background check” to get the gun.
On July 24 the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) announced that Lafayette theater gunman John Russell Houser bought his gun “legally” at a pawn store in Alabama in 2014.
On July 10, the FBI reported that background checks did not stop Dylann Roof from acquiring the gun he allegedly used to kill nine people at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17.
