{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 ...

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 ...

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 ...