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Background Report Mistake Still on Record after Three Decades
Denver, Colorado - A Denver resident was pulled over and was mistaken for a murder homicide suspect from Michigan, almost four decades ago back in 1975 in Commerce City. He sat in a county jail for 5 days and was later released and was never cha...
Attorney in Afghan Massacre Opposed to Criminal Background Check
Attorney John Henry Browne, the lead civilian lawyer representing Robert Bales, the U.S. Army accused of killing 17 Afghan villagers, is objecting to a routine background check required by the military. These types of background checks are t...
Background Checks on the Rise Amidst Re-elections and Increasing Crime
Firearm purchases and federal background checks through the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System continue to rise nationwide. Police agencies, shooting ranges, and firearm dealers report an increase in overall purchase a...
Gun Enthusiast Gather at Annual NRA Convention
CBS News - About 70,000 National Rifle Association members gathered at the group's annual convention, where guns and gear were displayed on a seven acre center. The NRA opposes any restrictions on gun ownership as well as President Barack O...
FBI Fingerprint Background Checks Goes Completely Digital
For those who need to get an FBI fingerprint background check, they may no longer have to wash ink from their fingers when they get fingerprinted as of this month. In Florida, one of the states now converting to an all digital in processing FBI ...
Major Dating Sites Now Requiring User Background Checks
Three major dating sites are now running criminal background checks for all their dating clients. These dating sites, namely eHarmony, Sparks Networks (JDate and ChristianMingle) and Match.com, hope to make online dating safer by implement...
Phoenix Airport New Addition to Federal Background Check Program
Travelers in different state airports can pass through shorter security lines by joining a federal program that places travelers who pass through an extensive background check under a "trusted traveler" list called Global Entry. Phoenix Sky...
February 2012 NICS Background Checks Up 31.4 Percent
Compared to February 2011, figures for this year has shown an increase of 31% with 1,266,344 FBI background checks in the NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) comparisons. Actual figures from the unajusted Febru...
Persons in Terrorist Watch List Denied Gun Purchases by Passage of Veteran Backed Bill
WASHINGTON - U.S. Federal Gun Laws have done a great job at preventing and denying gun purchases to those who are not eligible, under the Brady Bill and other laws, namely those who are: Convicted Felons or those under indictment for...
Senate Passes Bills on FBI NICS Exemption and Firearm Storage
Virginia - The West Virginia Senate passed a Bill that would exempt current and valid permit to carry holders from going through the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). Senate Bill 353 won unanimously by a 34 to 0...
PA School Background Check Challenged
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A recently renewed Pennsylvania law is now being challenged by school employees who has had some past run-ins with the law, and specially those who has had a criminal records. The new law states that any current school ...
New Background Check Bill Passed for Safer Mentoring Programs
Passed and written by Rep. Joseph M. McNamara (D-Dist. 19, Warwick, Cranston) and passed today, House bill (2012-H7077)will make national and state criminal background check a requirement for anybody participating or applying to join in any...
Flaws in FBI Background Check System Fail to Flag Purchases
Like many states, Maine depends on the FBI to conduct background checks of people who want to acquire firearms from the state's federally licensed gun dealers. And like many states, Maine is a slacker in supplying the records that the FB...
Potential New Gunman Reported at Virginia Tech
Update 10:31 a.m. - August 4, 2011 Virginia Tech is in lockdown as authorities look for a man three youths said may have had a weapon, possibly a handgun. The white male was described as having light brown hair and being 6 feet tall and was ...
Arizona Suspected Gunman Passed FBI Criminal Background Check
Representative Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, and at least 17 others were shot on January 8, 2011, Saturday morning when a gunman opened fire outside a supermarket where Ms. Giffords was meeting with constituents. Ms. Gifford...
Osama Bin Laden is Dead, President Obama Announces
Osama Bin Laden is dead, President Obama announced Sunday night, in a televised address to the nation. His death was the result of a U.S. operation launched today in Abbottabad, Pakistan, against a compound where bin Laden was believed to...
Arizona Governor Vetoes Birther and College Campus Gun Bill
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona's Republican Governor Jan Brewer on Monday vetoed two controversial bills, one mandating proof of U.S. citizenship to run for president, the other allowing guns on college campuses, in a clear setback for conse...
President Obama Calling for Better Gun Sale Background Checks
The Second Amendment and court precedent guarantee an individual's right to bear arms, but improved and expanded background checks are needed to prevent gun violence like the shocking attack in Tucson in January, President Obama wrote in a...
American Love of Firearms Continues as Gun Sales Continue to Climb
NEWTOWN, Conn --(Ammoland.com)- The January 2011 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 784,856 is an increase of 9.7 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 715,309 in January 2010. ...
Gun Control Background Checks 10 years after Columbine
The mention of Columbine still strikes fear and brings back memories of the awful tragedy that befell on the victims on that fateful day. It is also now synonymous as being the worst school shooting incident in American history. Colo...
Unemployment Gives Rise to New Job Scams
The global recession and continually growing unemployment rate spells disaster for most of us. Unfortunately it is also opens up opportunities for identity thieves and scammers. Like vultures, these people like to prey on the desperate and the...
More than 800 Firearm Buyers on Terrorist Watch List Approved to Buy Guns
WASHINGTON - The FBI Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) uses a terrorist watch list along with its other factors for screening potential firearm buyers. An updated report shows that the terrorist watch list contains 400,000 peo...
Gun Range Suicides Prompt Gun Rental Background Checks
Orlando, Florida - On July 1st 2009, Wednesday, a 43-year-old man went inside an Orange County gun range and rented a gun for target practice. Valentin Pepelea proceeded to fire a few shot before pulling the trigger on himself at around 6:40...
Justice Department Funds Set to Improve Brady Background Checks
WASHINGTON - September 14 - The U.S. Justice Department’s announcement yesterday of almost $17 million in grants to eight states to improve their Brady background check systems were made possible by legislation passed by Congre...
Firearm Criminal Background Check could have Prevented McNair Shooting
Nashville, Tenn. – Recently abuzz on news papers and news networks is the death of former NFL quarterback Steve McNair and his 20-year-old girlfriend found dead by his side. McNair was shot four times, twice in the head and twice on h...
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