WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Friday that congressional leaders are talking about new "meaningful background checks" for gun buyers – but with input from the National Rifle Association and ...

Firearm-related stocks fell Wednesday as President Trump confirmed a “very strong appetite” in Congress for tightening background check requirements for gun purchases. Gun manufacturers Sturm, Ruger & ...

Congress has created an “enormous threat to the safety and well-being of veterans” by blocking Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reports of mental incompetency from entering the federal background ...

For more years than it is comfortable to count, the National Rifle Assn. and its abettors in Washington have forestalled even the most sensible efforts to confront our national scourge of gun violence ...

In an age of unheard of gun violence in workplaces, schools, places of worship and other vulnerable areas, there is an understandably audible debate over how background checks are conducted and who ...

Skepticism abounds that any measure significantly changing the nation’s laws related to gun control will gain enough Republican support in the Senate to pass, coming a week after President Donald ...

In the wake of the shooting at a Washington naval facility that left 13 dead, President Barack Obama renewed his call for Congress to pass background check reforms to keep guns out of the hands of ...

Congress is under intense pressure to pass legislation to curb gun violence, but lawmakers are deeply split over how far to go in limiting access to guns. Lawmakers from both parties say they want to ...