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The Business of Guns
The holiday shopping bonanza defied expectations of a post-election slowdown.
Background Checks
Private transactions, exceedingly slow reviews, and laws that don’t recognize the threat from abusers all pose steep challenges to keeping firearms away from people who can’t legally possess them.
The same loophole allowed the Charleston shooter to purchase the weapon he used to kill nine worshippers last year.
A New Hampshire shooting brings the mental health reporting debate to the state's gubernatorial campaign.
Data
Here's how some states are trying to fix that.
The decline follows predictions that an epic boom in firearms sales may finally be slowing.
Is it possible America has reached peak gun?
The FBI performed more than 2.5 million of them.
Both sides in the contentious Washington state background check fight say that their position is vindicated by newly reported FBI data.
February was the third busiest month on record for the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.