This claim misrepresented a 2017 Washington Post report about hundreds of thousands of "fugitives from justice" being purged from the background check database for gun purchases. The report did not ...

{mosads}This popular myth has helped fuel the ongoing debate among policymakers in Washington regarding the use of background checks for everything from immigration reform to employment screening. In ...

A bipartisan group of senators has struck a deal to bolster a federal database used to check the backgrounds of gun buyers in the aftermath of several recent mass shootings. The new legislative push ...

The FBI’s background-check system is missing millions of records of criminal convictions, mental illness diagnoses and other flags that would keep guns out of potentially dangerous hands, a gap that ...

Washington • Tens of thousands of people wanted by law enforcement officials have been removed this year from the FBI criminal background check database that prohibits fugitives from justice from ...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered a wide-ranging review of the FBI background check database after the Air Force neglected to file the criminal history of the gunman who killed 26 people at a ...