A May 1 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a screenshot of a 2018 news article with the headline "Obama Removed 500,000 Pedophiles From Background Check Database." The article's subhead ...

This claim misrepresented a 2017 Washington Post report about hundreds of thousands of "fugitives from justice" being purged from the background check database for gun purchases. The report did not ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs would not be able to send names of veterans who have had financial managers appointed for them to the FBI's gun background check database under any circumstances ...

Washington County Prothonotary Laura Hough is being accused of using a background check database to search for information on two dozen local people for unknown reasons before county officials revoked ...

More than 1,000 California law enforcement agency workers in the past decade have been found to have misused sensitive databases that are supposed to be accessed only for legitimate investigative ...