Federal gun policy is shifting from a patchwork of dealer rules and background checks toward a more explicit question: should you need a national license before you can buy or keep a firearm. The new ...

The latest push in the Senate to require a federal license before someone can buy a gun is built around a simple premise: if the government already screens people before they drive a car or prescribe ...

The Biden administration has reversed a much-criticized policy that required inspectors to revoke the federal firearms sales licenses for gun shops over certain paperwork errors or anomalies as part ...

The Gun Control Act allows the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives one option: "We giveth a license. We take it away, through the revocation process, which involves due process," said ...