Crossover spells end of line for most legislation proposed by NC lawmakers in 2025, with bills sponsored by Democrats ...

2015 was a record year for background checks for guns. According to FBI data posted Monday, there were 23,141,970 background checks in 2015. That beats the prior record of 21,093,273 in 2013.

It's the largest number of such retrieval requests in 10 years, according to FBI records – an especially striking statistic after revelations that a breakdown in the background check system ...

That statistic suggests that the number of guns that wind up in the wrong hands each year because of delays in the background check system could be much higher than previously reported.