MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- Some call it a "loophole." Others say that's just how it ought to be. Either way, the internet is making it easy to get a gun - no questions asked. Over the past 15 years, the ...

A Craigslist for Guns, With No Background Checks. A federal gun law passed last year gave the Biden administration a powerful new tool to increase background checks on “private” firearms sales.

Jon Lowy, director of the legal action project of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, says, “The last figure we have is 40 percent of gun sales take place without a background check.

One of President Obama's gun control proposals appears to have widespread support — universal background checks for gun purchases. Some experts on mental health and gun violence find problems ...

This report is a part of "Rethinking Gun Violence," an ABC News series examining the level of gun violence in the U.S. -- and what can be done about it. Darien Richardson, a 25-year-old woman in ...

A gun shop employee shows guns to customers at SP Firearms Unlimited in Franklin Square, New York on August 6, 2021. Mike Pont / Getty Images file “We need to clear that up,” the Texas ...

While it was overwhelmed, the background check system also stopped a record number of gun sales, according to FBI records obtained by Everytown for Gun Safety and shared with the AP.More than ...

But you go to a gun show, you can buy whatever you want and no background check.” The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) defines a dealer in firearms as “a person who devotes ...

Federal law barred Jody Lee Hunt from ever owning a gun. But when he wanted to buy one, it wasn’t hard: He found a seller on Facebook. Mr. Hunt was a felon who had spent time in prison for ...

A new report out last week from a gun control advocacy group found there were nearly 4,000 more firearm deaths and more than 9,000 firearm-related injuries in 2020 than 2019.