Here’s a look at how the federal background check works, and what activists and experts have to say about it. ... Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ 4473 form. ...

Like almost all gun-form liars, Zawahri was not prosecuted. ... Since the 2006 study, ATF has not assessed the threat from people who lie on gun background check forms, the agency told CNN.

The previous record was set in 2016, when the FBI conducted 14.9 million checks, and had mostly declined until 2020. In 2019, the agency conducted approximately 12.3 million firearm background checks.

Claiming to buy a gun for yourself and then delivering it to someone else is illegal, as the form makes plain. The ban is ineffectual, though, unless violators can expect to face punishment.

The background check form. Guns may be sold in Georgia only to residents of Georgia. If a gun is bought in another state, that seller ships it to a licensed firearms dealer in Georgia who ...

But according to newly revealed Justice Department records, the odds of being charged for lying on this form are virtually nonexistent.In the 2019 fiscal year, when Hunter Biden purchased his gun ...

Prospective gun buyers must fill out a form from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives attesting to certain questions, then their name is run through the FBI system.

Today, many gun control advocates are pushing for what they call universal background checks. In this and future articles, I will explain the strange system of "universal background checks" being ...

Like almost all gun-form liars, Zawahri was not prosecuted. ... Since the 2006 study, ATF has not assessed the threat from people who lie on gun background check forms, the agency told CNN.

The previous record was set in 2016, when the FBI conducted 14.9 million checks, and had mostly declined until 2020. In 2019, the agency conducted approximately 12.3 million firearm background checks.

The FBI conducted more than 3.9 million background checks associated with the sale, transfer or permitting of firearms in June, making it the highest month on record.