Background Checks

On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Corey L. Maze “permanently [blocked] federal authorities from enforcing multiple provisions of the ATF’s [‘engaged in the business’ rule],” according to Rocket City Now.

U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda (D-HI) is introducing legislation that would mandate triggers, barrels, and other gun parts be tracked after being sold.

Sens. Jim Risch (R-ID), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Steve Daines (R-MT), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) were among the Republican lawmakers who introduced legislation Thursday to cut ATF red tape on background checks.

The Second Amendment does not protect “access” to a gun “without a violent criminal background check,”  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed Tuesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing.

Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers reportedly reacted to the Madison Christian School shooting by claiming, “Kids can’t go to school safe.”

Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI) is calling for “action now” against the type of firearms Democrats refer to as “ghost guns.”

November 2024 was the 64th consecutive month with more than one million background checks conducted for gun sales at retail. 

July 2024 was the 60th consecutive month of over one million background checks for gun sales and/or firearm transfers. 

President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is scheduled to face sentencing on November 13, 2024, for his gun crime convictions.

U.S. District Court Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk issued a temporary restraining order on May 19, 2024, against the ATF’s universal background check rule.

A home day care owner in Boston, Massachusetts, was reportedly allowed to retain her license after being indicted in a federal drug case.

April 2024 marked the fifty-seventh consecutive month of more than one million NICS checks for gun sales or transfers.

Background checks at states around the country are surging as the Democrats and their willing surrogates continue to push gun control at all levels of government. 

The Texan pointed out on Thursday that the ATF’s new background check rule is occurring “under a law from Sen. John Cornyn.”

Kamala Harris posted a video to X on Thursday in which she praised the ATF’s proposed rule forcing background checks on private gun sales.

A proposed rule from the ATF will force private gun sellers to use the National Instant Criminal Background Check System to sell their guns.

President Joe Biden boasted Thursday morning as another executive gun control — the ATF’s expanded background check rule — stood poised to take effect.

The FBI is now conducting non-instant background checks on 18-20 year-old would-be gun purchasers in compliance with a 2022 gun control law.

March 2024 ended as the fifty-sixth consecutive month of more than one million background checks for firearm sales/transfers.

At least six people were shot, one of them fatally, at a subway in the Bronx on Monday around 4:30 p.m.

The woman who opened fire in Lakewood Church Sunday legally purchased the long gun used in the attack in December 2023.

The Ninth Circuit granted a stay allowing California’s ammunition controls to be enforced while Judge Roger T. Benitez’s ruling is appealed.

United States District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez issued Tuesday a decision blocking enforcement of California’s background check requirement for ammunition purchases.

Hunter Biden’s attorneys filed a motion in a U.S. District Court Monday, seeking to have gun charges against him dismissed in light of the Supreme Court’s Bruen (2022) decision.

Police have confirmed a legally purchased 9mm handgun was used by the attacker in Wednesday’s University of Nevada, Las Vegas, mass shooting.

The ATF, under pressure from GOP House members, agreed to accept 40,000 additional petitions against the agency’s background check rule.

A Texas woman who was involved in decisions regarding curriculum in Godley ISD is a convicted prostitute, a fact that has alarmed the community.

New Invisalign patients now have the option of receiving a membership at the Youngsville Gun Club and Range or a new Glock 19 through a promotion launched by Wake Forest, North Carolina’s Dr. Jason Gladwell.

During an interview with “PBS NewsHour” aired on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris stated that the White House isn’t going “to be distracted by political games” like the Republican impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden and will “stay focused” on

Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters used a Sunday news conference to tell reporters the individual who killed three people in a Jacksonville, Florida, Dollar General Saturday acquired both his guns legally.

National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) numbers released by the FBI at the end of July show the U.S. has enjoyed four years of one million-plus gun sales a month.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) reacted to the Department of Justice’s plea deal with Hunter Biden by noting that Hunter was given a pass on things for which lawful American gun owners would be punished.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed an executive order on background checks Tuesday, just over two weeks after a 28-year-old transgender attacker used legally purchased firearms to shoot and kill six people at a Nashville Christian school. 

The portfolio banker who and shot and killed five people at Old National Bank Monday bought his rifle “legally” at a gun store in Louisville, Kentucky. 

The North Carolina House overrode Gov. Roy Cooper’s (D) veto on Wednesday, ending the state’s requirement that law-abiding citizens get a permit from their local sheriff before being able to buy a handgun.

Oregon police are worried that if Ballot Measure 114 is allowed to take effect it may limit them to ten-round magazines and force them to get a permit in order to carry their firearms off-duty.