{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 ...

Federal law does not require background checks for ammunition purchases, and neither do the vast majority of states. In the vast majority of states, anyone who buys a nasal decongestant containing ...

Legislation supported by the Electronic Security Association that would give companies in the industry access to the FBI’s database for criminal background checks was recently approved by the Senate ...

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 ...

A major change that aims to keep more weapons out of the wrong hands is in the works for the FBI's gun background check process. Examiners will be given access to a large, previously untapped database ...

Hot on the heels of the National Public Records data breach, which leaked more than 2 billion records, another background check firm has now had a leak. The company in question, MC2 Data, exposed the ...