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How We Fix This
The gun background check system is only as good as the records it contains. How one affable bureaucrat helped Louisiana set the standard for flagging people banned from owning firearms.
The Business of Guns
In a lawsuit, Slide Fire accuses Merrick Bank of holding its money "hostage." The financial institution says it had to hedge its risk.
Prompted by a 2007 law, an administrator at the Iowa Department of Public Safety personally oversaw the review of 125,000 state mental health case files to figure out who should be prohibited from owning guns.
Background Checks
Experts say the shortage leaves NICS vulnerable to mistakes and workers at risk of burnout.
After a weekend of protests and vigils following the massacre at a Florida high school that left 17 dead, President Donald Trump signaled support on Monday for bipartisan legislation aimed at improving records reporting to the federal gun background…
ATF
Within about 48 hours of arresting Cleophus Cooksey, Jr. for a double murder on December 17, Phoenix police used ballistic evidence to tie the 35-year-old man to seven additional killings. The technology that police used to make the…
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives took what could be the first step toward reclassifying bump stocks on Thursday, posting a document that asks manufacturers and retailers how they would be affected if the devices were regulated as…
A new "fugitive from justice" definition has increased the odds that some violent criminals will be able to buy a firearm, experts say.
Ann Givens
New York police and crime lab officials faced tough questions on Thursday about whether a large, unregulated DNA database built in part to solve more gun cases violates the civil rights of the people whose profiles are in it.
Experts have been warning since the Department of Justice changed its gun background check policy earlier this year that dangerous criminals would have a better chance of purchasing guns legally. A case out of Arizona, they say, validates their concerns.
Information on 52,000 open warrants were purged from the FBI's list of banned gun buyers earlier this year.
In 2012, Devin Patrick Kelley was court-martialed by the U.S. Air Force and sentenced to a year in military prison for assaulting his wife and child. On Sunday, he used an assault-style rifle, a Ruger AR-556, to slaughter 26 people…
A group of current and former Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives employees has written to Congress proposing a way to change current law that would make bump stocks illegal, and pushing back against critics who said it…
When the first bump stock came across Rick Vasquez’s desk in 2010, he knew that his evaluation would take longer than usual. As the senior technical expert for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, it was Vasquez’s…
Jeremiah Cottle said he made the first-ever bump stock in about two hours from a piece of wood and some metal. The retired Air Force veteran had come home to his Central Texas farm to recover from a brain…
The most comprehensive study yet of a popular violence-prevention group’s New York City program has found it effective in reducing gun crime and defusing situations that can lead to shootings in two neighborhoods where it is in force. Cure…
