The truth is that a solid background screening program is really a compliance program in a friendlier outfit. Every disclosure, every consent, every adjudication note, every pause for adverse action, ...

Thousands of Montgomery County Public Schools workers have fallen through cracks in background check systems, according to a new report, potentially meaning people with criminal histories could be ...

A background check system critical to the firearms purchase process is back online after being down for about three weeks during a cyberattack on the state of Nevada. The Brady Firearms Unit ...

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that California's first-of-its-kind law requiring gun owners to undergo background checks to purchase ammunition is unconstitutional, declaring that it violates ...

The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court to strike down a California law mandating background checks for ammunition purchases, after two lower courts already ruled the law was ...