The Federal Bureau of Investigation is slowly expanding its identification systems to soon include iris scans and palm print scans. This is part of the FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) system, which has been in development for close to a year. Douglas Sprouse, a program analyst with the FBI’s Biometric Service Section, provided updates on…
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Illinois Passes Law To Criminalize Private Gun Sales
Illinois Governor JP Pritzker just signed new legislation that would soon criminalize the private selling of firearms if the buyer does not go through a background check using the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The Democratic governor said after signing the new legislation that the new measure was necessary to prevent those…
June Gun Sales Is Second-Highest Despite 1 Million Drop
Gun sales last month totaled roughly 1.4 million, according to the latest data from the FBI National Instance Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting (SAAF) said the figure represented a 42.2 percent year-over-year drop – or roughly 1 million less compared with the same month last year. Despite the drop,…
Pandemic-Driven Gun Sale Surge Continues Into 2021
Gun sales in the U.S., which sharply rose during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, have continued to increase this year. Around a fifth of those sales are from first-time buyers. Data from the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) shows that gun sales had topped more than 1 million per week since…
Texas Passes Permit-Less Gun Carry Law
Texas has passed a new bill that will allow all Texans to carry a handgun without the need to acquire a permit. The Texas House passed House Bill HB1927 with a vote of 82 to 62. The Bill also passed the Texas Senate with a 17 to 13 vote. Under HB1927, the requirement of a…
Iowa Passes New Permit-Less Firearm Carry And Purchase Law
Iowa residents will no longer be required to acquire a permit to buy or carry a handgun under the new law signed by Governor Kim Reynolds. The new law, called the “Constitutional Carry Law,” will take effect on July 1. “Today I signed legislation that protects the 2nd Amendment rights of Iowa’s law-abiding citizens while…
Biden Waives FBI Fingerprint Checks For Migrant Children Caretakers
To fill the demand for people to look after the growing number of unaccompanied migrant children crossing the country’s border, the Biden administration has now removed the requirement of FBI fingerprint checks for caregivers. While the administration’s motive may be sound, the move has concerned some members of the public. Without the failsafe of background…
Two Bills For Gun Control And Two Others Opposed To It Heads To Senate Floor
A pair of bills in Delaware aiming to further restrict access to guns has left the state’s Senate Judiciary Committee and is now heading to the Senate Floor. Meanwhile, another pair of bills in Arkansas aimed at blocking local law enforcement from enforcing federal gun laws are also now heading to the Senate floor. The…
Biden To Pass New Gun Control Executive Orders
US President Joe Biden is reportedly preparing to issue gun reform executives orders to circumvent the need for Congress to pass new legislation. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that the executive orders should help address the growing prevalence of gun violence in the country. Psaki said that there still wasn’t an “exact time…
Mass Shooting Surge: First Atlanta Spas Now A Grocery Store In Colorado
The deadly shooting inside a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado is the second mass shooting incident in less than a week. The incident in Colorado that killed 10 people – including a police officer – happened just a few days after a 21-year-old gunman shot and killed eight people in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to the…