background checks

The legislation mandates background checks be performed on all gun sales, including firearm purchases made privately. The Senate is unlikely to take it up.

The heads of four U.S. companies are lobbying for a law requiring background checks on all gun purchases. One of them, the founder of TOMS shoes, concedes his company will lose business as a result.

Democrats unveiled new legislation to enhance background checks on the eighth anniversary of the Tucson shooting that injured former Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz. But the gun lobby vows to oppose it.

Gov. John Kasich says his Medicaid department has made some changes to required background checks on behavioral and mental health providers – a…

Hundreds of mental health and addiction counselors could lose their jobs because the state is now requiring criminal background checks for people who…

Records show more than 200 courts across Ohio failed to respond to Gov. John Kasich’s executive order seeking more information on their history with the…

Gov. John Kasich took his message for tougher gun control to the county level, signing a new executive order that urges clerks of courts and other…

The measure would have required the Social Security Administration to send records of some beneficiaries with severe mental disabilities to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

President Obama has called for expanded background checks, but many are uncertain as to what the current background checks consist of. Coming up, how…

President Obama recently outlined a series of executive actions he said will help reduce gun violence, including improving the background check system. We…