For all its value, the system is ripe for an update. Last weekend, two murderers, in separate and tragic incidents, walked into public venues in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio and shot and killed a ...

A Pennsylvania Representative is aiming to eliminate the Pennsylvania Instant Check System (PICS), which is the firearm ...

Twenty years ago, a pair of students killed a teacher and a dozen of their classmates at a high school in Littleton, Colo. The shooters at Columbine High School used semi-automatic weapons and ...

Nearly 2 million records were added last year to the FBI database used to prevent criminals from buying a gun, according to a new FBI report on the operations of the National Instant Criminal ...

Mr. Witkin is a longtime criminal justice reporter. A litany of exasperating rituals flows from America’s regular mass shootings. One of the most frustrating is the hand-wringing that our politics is ...

Internal FBI data reveal a jarring new stat: The number of people trying to buy guns who can’t legally own them has skyrocketed. That came as part of a surge in gun purchases in the first three months ...