Hawaii lawmakers are pushing for a law that would require state residents who own handguns to have their information entered into a database maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI database would then be updated anytime a resident of Hawaii was arrested in another state. When a person in the database is …

An all-time record number of firearm background checks were processed last year, according to FBI data. Gun sales were extremely high during the final three months of 2015, in the aftermath of deadly mass shootings and violent attacks in San Bernardino, California and Paris, France. In fact, December 2015 saw an all-time high of more …