Archive: Background Checks

Watch TODAY’s national investigative correspondent Jeff Rossen expose how simple it is for...

A new investigation by the City of New York found that 62% of private online sellers were willing to sell guns to people who said they couldn’t pass a criminal background check.
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Watch Rachel Maddow review "Point, click, fire" a report by Mayors Against Illegal Guns documenting a recent investigation of gun sales on the internet....

The Tennessean
December 05, 2011
Let there be no doubt: Bob Pope is a gun-packing Republican, who ran gun shows for 25 years.
But he said his buddies in the Tennessee Firearms Association are irritated by his one-man campaign to...

Families from across the country who have lost loved ones to gun violence are joining together, asking the NRA to be part of the solution and help fix our countries broken gun check system. We hope the NRA will respond with the respect these...

Here is an excerpt from an interview with Colin Goddard, a survivor of the Virginia Tech shootings, as he talks about the dangers of guns on campus: “There have been attempts by gun enthusiasts in a number of states to pass legislation mandating...

President Barack Obama Special To The Arizona Daily Star

It’s been more than two months since the tragedy in Tucson stunned the nation. It was a moment when we came together as one people to mourn and to pray for those we lost. And...

Wisconsin residents and gun violence victims came to Red Arrow Park to welcome the “Fix Gun Checks” tour and share their stories.

The media coverage from yesterday’s event will help make sure that people get the message that our gun...

One after another, they stepped to the microphone. Some spoke strongly, some hesitantly, some through tears, as they described, in two or three sentences each, how gun violence had affected them, their loved ones, and others.

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March, 2010

Thanks to all who signed and collected postcards, we were able to present every single legislator with a stack of cards from their own constituents, urging them to support background checks on all gun sales.

6,000...