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Background Checks
The decline follows predictions that an epic boom in firearms sales may finally be slowing.
The FBI performed more than 2.5 million of them.
Gun Policy
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.
Mass Shooting
As we learn more about the married shooters and their victims, here are some of the big things to watch in this developing story.
A post-Thanksgiving shopping bonanza capped back-to-back record-breaking months for background check requests.
That's according to the Mass Shooting Tracker's definition. According to the FBI, there were none.
Data
Shunning the FBI’s widely used definition, the numbers circulated by the crowdsourced Mass Shooting Tracker show such attacks to be an almost daily phenomenon.
The NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 was intended to improve lapses in state record keeping that have allowed dangerous people like Dylann Roof to get a gun. Here’s why almost 90 percent of that money has never been spent.
The Business of Guns
How the retail giant set the industry standard for safe gun sales.
Did the FBI ever complete it?