WASHINGTON A bipartisan proposal to expand background checks to more gun buyers seemed in jeopardy Monday as a growing number of Republican senators expressed opposition to the proposal, perhaps ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firearms are on display in a Salem gun shop. Advocates for gun owners and the Oregon State Police are debating the the efficacy of ...

Some are wondering if enhanced background checks are targeting law-abiding citizens, and not cracking down on criminals. The Biden administration says because of the enhanced checks, crime is down.

Gun policy has become so politically divisive that lawmakers have found it nearly impossible to pass federal legislation on it in recent years. A window opened in 2022 after a mass school shooting in ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday he may call for a vote on legislation toughening the laws on background checks for gun purchases following the fatal shooting of two police officers and ...

During the Trump assassination attempt, the shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, used an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle legally purchased by his father. Although it appears that the son would have ...

It’s the latest in a series of firearms makers to close in recent years.

If background checks on gun purchases were stronger, dangerous people would have a harder time obtaining lethal weapons, according to speakers who gathered downtown Monday to support a congressional ...

The national News21 Initiative brings together a select group of student journalists to produce a major national investigation into a topic of wide interest. This year, News21 has documented the ...