3 days ago
Trell said he thought a background check would be appropriate for people working in financial roles, but not tour personnel who weren't employees of AEG.
15 days ago
State officials are setting aside millions of dollars to address backlogs in background checks that have soared since the December school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
17 days ago
Senators backing gun control are discussing ways to revise the defeated Senate background check bill in order to help win the votes they need to resuscitate the measure.
17 days ago
If the business doesn't take these additional steps, it must make clear that its background checks or consumer lists may include errors and should be used for marketing or entertainment purposes...
21 days ago
The Texas House on Saturday approved a bushel of bills to further soften gun laws that were already among the most firearms-friendly in America, allowing college students to carry handguns in...
22 days ago
Pryor is among several lawmakers the group, co-founded by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is focusing on for opposing the background checks measure that failed in the Senate last month.
70 days ago
"The move to expand background checks would be one of the most sweeping responses by Colorado to the shootings last year in Aurora, Colo., and an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
70 days ago
The state Senate gave final approval Friday to a bill that expands background checks for private and online firearm purchases in response to mass shootings last year in Colorado and Connecticut.
71 days ago
The head of the National Rifle Association is attacking President Barack Obama's call for mandatory background checks for gun owners.
71 days ago
After a couple of false starts, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill Thursday that would ban assault weapons, restrict the size of ammunition magazines and require universal background...
72 days ago
After a couple of false starts, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill Thursday that would ban assault weapons, restrict the size of ammunition clips and require universal background...
72 days ago
During the 10 years that ended in 2009, about 100 million background checks were processed, with about 1.9 million applications rejected.
73 days ago
The law already requires licensed gun dealers to run background checks, and over the last 14 years that's kept 1.5 million of the wrong people from getting their hands on a gun.
73 days ago
It would require background checks for transactions between private individuals and expand a system designed to keep firearms from criminals, those with major mental problems and others.
74 days ago
The National Rifle Association cites the underground market that enables violent criminals like Cooper to acquire firearms as a reason for opposing expanded background checks.
74 days ago
The poll found that by a lopsided 84 to 15 percent, voters want background checks for private gun sales and sales at gun shows, with broad support from Democrats, independents and Republicans alike.
74 days ago
Democrats are ready to muscle expanded background checks and other gun curbs through a Senate committee, giving President Barack Obama an initial if temporary victory on one of his top priorities.
75 days ago
Colorado senators were expected to take final votes Monday on several gun-control measures, including on magazine ammunition limits and expanded background checks.
79 days ago
Democrats instead will seek backing from other Republicans for what they still hope will be a bipartisan drive to expand the current background check system, said the aide to Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.
80 days ago
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is returning to the site of a shooting that left her critically wounded to urge key senators to support expanded background checks for gun purchases.
80 days ago
Some of the persons who sell guns at shows are licensed gun dealers -- and they are required to conduct background checks on those sales.
80 days ago
Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn has been the lead Republican negotiating with New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and other Democrats over a compromise background check measure.
81 days ago
State officials say they're ending a "stupid" policy that required lawmakers to submit to background checks each time they entered the Texas governor's mansion.
81 days ago
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is urging key senators to support expanded background checks for gun purchases in a new television ad that is to begin airing Tuesday in Arizona and Iowa.
82 days ago
The National Rifle Association cites the underground market that enables violent criminals like Cooper to acquire firearms as a reason for opposing expanded background checks.
