National database for background checks is a myth by Melissa Sorenson, National Association of Professional Background Screeners - 04/04/13 8:30 PM ET ...

For four months, Utah’s gun background check database lacked a chunk of criminal records pertaining to mental incompetence because of a database glitch in the state court system. And for about ...

Criminal information on thousands of cases is missing from a state database often used to perform background checks for employment and volunteer positions, the state Auditor’s Office said in a ...

This claim misrepresented a 2017 Washington Post report about hundreds of thousands of "fugitives from justice" being purged from the background check database for gun purchases. The report did ...

In theory, the FBI’s background check database, tapped by gun dealers during a sale, should have a definitive list of people who are prohibited from having guns — people who have been ...

Evan Hughes of the Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs said the number of people added to the national database has been fairly modest. “It hasn’t been any massive sweeping up of people ...

The federal personnel agency whose records were plundered by hackers linked to China announced on Monday the temporary shutdown of a massive database used to update and store background ...

Minneapolis Sheriff Richard Stanek is one of the law enforcement officials who met with Vice President Joe Biden recently to talk about gun violence prevention. Audie Cornish talks with him about ...