Background checks are important for many reasons. They’re an essential tool for companies looking to hire someone without a criminal history and for landlords renting their properties to people.

Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the GOP negotiator in the recently passed federal legislation, has implied the shooter had mental health issues as a juvenile. “Enhanced background checks of juvenile ...

The legislation aligns Texas with new federal reporting requirements and is “meant to make the background check more thorough and hence make our communities and schools safer,” Huffman at the ...

A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would force gun dealers to carry out background checks and secure licenses when selling firearms at ...

Nicole Golden, executive director of Texas Gun Sense, a gun safety advocacy organization, said “background checks can save lives.” “It’s critically important that we implement the laws we ...

Related: Texas sues to void rules aimed at expanding kind of gun sales requiring background checks The rules also said a seller should become licensed if they meet criteria such as repeatedly ...

Lawmakers tried in 2009 to require that the state report all court-ordered mental health hospitalizations to a federal gun background check system ...