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Background Checks
The FBI ran more of them last month than in any other January since the system went live.
Election 2016
Hillary Clinton's attacks on Bernie Sanders's gun record did not give her the decisive Iowa victory she sought. Now what?
Gun Policy
State senators hope the governor and Republican presidential candidate will make time to read the new bill after he said he was too busy to consider their last effort.
The governor's office said he wasn't given enough time to evaluate the bill. Supporters of the measure say that excuse is weak.
Politics
With the polls deadlocked and Hillary Clinton hammering his record, the Vermont Senator seeks to convince persuadable voters that they can trust him to take on the NRA.
National Rifle Association
The seesawing numbers found in its 2014 New York state disclosure belie the group's image as a political juggernaut.
The legislation would have updated a controversial law widely seen as a detriment to the technology.
It's the small gun shops the Vermont Senator wants to protect, not gun manufacturers, who have a direct link to the illegal gun market.
The Business of Guns
As President Obama moves to incrementally expand background checks, private firearms deals are going strong on the social web.
Sometimes guns purchased online require a background check. Sometimes they don't. Here's how to know the difference.
It's one of a few overlooked sides of the president's executive actions on guns. Here's why they may wind up having the most tangible effects.
What to know about the push to require everyone “engaged in the business” of gun selling to register as a firearms dealer.
Stag Arms president Mark Malkowski, a vocal opponent of tougher gun laws, was named the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s “Business Person of the Year” in 2014.
Darin Prince's creation is a case study in how some entrepreneurs and gun enthusiasts find ways to skirt regulations meant to mitigate a weapon's killing power.
Data
An interactive map of American gun violence.