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The Business of Guns
As President Obama moves to incrementally expand background checks, private firearms deals are going strong on the social web.
Background Checks
What to know about the push to require everyone “engaged in the business” of gun selling to register as a firearms dealer.
Year in Review
From an NRA-hating hunter, to an angry mother, to a group of Redditors, these people had a dramatic impact on how we viewed gun reform in 2015.
Politics
A guide to the dueling approaches for regulating gun sales to persons on the terror watch list.
A post-Thanksgiving shopping bonanza capped back-to-back record-breaking months for background check requests.
Gun Policy
Unregulated private firearms transactions can lack the safety measures followed at licensed stores.
While American gun sellers process millions of firearms, their business practices are uniquely shielded from scrutiny.
Data
A forthcoming Harvard survey suggest that more Americans own a sizable stockpile of firearms than there are residents of Denmark.
The Mental Health and Safe Communities Act would allow people who have been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital to purchase a gun immediately after their release.
National Rifle Association
John Cornyn's legislation incentivizes reporting of mental health records to the federal background check system. Critics say it could also allow some former mental patients to immediately buy firearms.