Background Checks

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

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. 

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.

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.

The Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) finalized a rule Wednesday that classifies parts in a gun parts kit as firearms that require a background check to purchase, like the one required for “traditional firearms.”

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) used a Wednesday press conference to highlight new state gun controls and emphasized that talking to a would-be gun buyer’s “neighbors online” is now part of a background check.

The founder of New York State Jewish Gun Club is challenging New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D) recently passed concealed carry law.

The Senate unveiled Tuesday the language of the bipartisan gun control deal Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) struck with Democrats at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) behest.

The language of the Senate gun control deal was revealed on Tuesday and it expands background checks for persons 18-20 years of age by changing the review period for their background check from a set period of three business days to a possible ten business days. 

The Senate gun control agreement that emerged Sunday adds an “investigative period” to certain firearm background checks. 

The desperate desire to “do something” blinds gun-control advocates to the fact that their so-called solutions won’t do anything to prevent the next mass shooting. And, unfortunately, too many Republicans accept the flawed premises of the gun-control movement.

The Chicago Sun-Times columnist who is comparing guns to child porn and pushing for more gun laws was previously denied a weapons purchase because of a domestic charge. 

The gun prohibition lobby and their friends on Capitol Hill have resorted to the same rhetoric and brought out the same agenda they’ve been promoting for a long time.

CLAIM: During his Thursday night primetime speech President Biden claimed that we  “should expand background checks” and talked of how such checks would keep guns out of the wrong hands.  

Tulsa police chief Wendell Franklin indicated the suspect who opened fire on the St. Francis Hospital campus Wednesday used guns which he had purchased legally.