We visit a local gun shop to learn how those checks work. Lawmakers face growing pressure to expand background checks to private gun transactions. Skip Navigation ...

If you want to transfer or sell a firearm to a friend, you will need to go to a Federal Firearms Licensee dealer or FFL and complete a form. Another option is to complete a record of transfer form ...

RIDGEFIELD, Clark County — The long guns and pistols here at the Clark County fair building spill across folding tables and stack up on portable racks. The customers, mostly older ...

In California, when private citizens want to sell guns, they must go to licensed gun dealers who broker the transactions. According to law, the dealer must complete background checks on the two ...

Gun owners may complain it’s an unacceptable infringement on Second Amendment rights, but a proposal in the state Legislature that would mandate background checks on private gun sales simply ...

Co-founders of Gun Transfer Randall Gorham, left, and Stephen Anderson, right, pose for a photograph in Morgan on Friday, Oct. 21, 2016.

A 2022 study published in the Journal of Illicit Economies and Development looked at more than 20,600 gun shows held in the U.S. between 2011 and 2019. The study found that three out of every 10 ...