Wisconsin Democrats are urging lawmakers to pass a new package of gun control bills. The legislation was introduced Tuesday, and supporters say the measures are common sense.

The problem areas in implementation are incomplete data due to failed reporting, poor definitions of prohibiting events, insufficiently thorough background checks, release of firearms before ...

The group, known as the Wisconsin Gun Violence Prevention Coalition, emphasized the importance of background checks on gun purchases. Director of state legislative affairs and law enforcement for ...

Amid an ongoing national debate over the appropriate regulations for the purchasing and ownership of firearms, some Wisconsin lawmakers and taxpayers have declared their support for expanding ...

The state of Wisconsin ... it’s a firearm or anything else,” Nass said. “They don’t worry about doing things legally … The problem isn’t the firearms, it’s the criminals.” Bonavia said she disagrees ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Rice Lake, Wisconsin-based firearms manufacturer Henry ...

Wisconsin residents support background checks on private gun sales and sales at gun shows. Eighty-one percent support such background checks while 16 percent oppose them. When the question was ...

This so-called “gun show loophole” results in millions of background check-free firearm transfers in the U.S. every year — and many of these guns ultimately end up in the hands of criminals.

The DOJ said Mark John Buschman, 60, of Wisconsin, has been federally indicted for selling and smuggling firearms to buyers in Saudi Arabia. The indictment claims Buschman would conceal the ...

WASHINGTON STATE — Background checks for firearm sales in Washington have resumed after system security concerns caused a two-week delay. The restoration of the online resources necessary for ...

The FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System reported on Monday that firearm background checks rose 5.2% year-over-year to 2,374,172 in October vs. 2,255,089 checks a year ago and ...

In Wisconsin, traditionally democratic policies like universal background checks, safe storage laws and assault weapon bans are currently not enforced. Kovach says such laws make gun accessibility ...