“We must do something.” It’s what we always hear in the wake of senseless tragedies like the shooting that left 26 people dead in a Texas church, many of them children. Then the standoff begins. For ...

For all its value, the system is ripe for an update. Last weekend, two murderers, in separate and tragic incidents, walked into public venues in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio and shot and killed a ...

Twenty years ago, a pair of students killed a teacher and a dozen of their classmates at a high school in Littleton, Colo. The shooters at Columbine High School used semi-automatic weapons and ...

The federal government’s gun background check system used to be pretty lousy at stopping people with mental health problems from buying guns. In its first nine years of operation, the National Instant ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Boris Epshteyn formerly served as a Senior Advisor to the Trump Campaign and served in the White House as Special Assistant to The President and Assistant Communications Director for ...

Mr. Witkin is a longtime criminal justice reporter. A litany of exasperating rituals flows from America’s regular mass shootings. One of the most frustrating is the hand-wringing that our politics is ...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered the federal government to review a system used to track gun ownership and restrict firearms sales. The move comes less than three weeks after Devin Kelley, a ...

The National Instant Criminal Background Check System, also known as NICS, is intended to identify people prohibited under federal law from purchasing firearms from a licensed dealer. However, there ...

Twenty years ago, a pair of students killed a teacher and a dozen of their classmates a high school in Littleton, Colo. The shooters at Columbine High School used semiautomatic weapons and sawed-off ...