The law violates the Second Amendment, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that California’s law requiring background checks for people purchasing ...

"California's ammunition background check regime infringes on the fundamental right to keep and bear arms," wrote the judge.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A voter-backed California law requiring background checks for people who buy bullets is unconstitutional ...

A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that struck down a background check requirement implemented by California on buyers ...

Michael Gann, 55, of Inwood, New York, was charged with manufacturing at least seven of the explosive devices found hidden on the subway and rooftops. Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern ...

It's going to be harder for someone to open a strip club or massage parlor in Minnesota as a new set of laws go into effect ...

Ayman Soliman, detained since July 9 on immigration charges, must wait for a decision on whether he'll be released from jail as his supporters pack Cleveland Immigration Court.

Missouri cannabis regulators say they're halfway through getting fingerprint background checks for about 16,000 marijuana ...

Flora Farms Stateline dispensary at the Arkansas border has 50 employees and 14 registers. (Rebecca Rivas/Missouri ...

Changes in Missouri’s cannabis laws meant some weed workers didn’t go through the Missouri Highway Patrol’s criminal ...

The initial program is known as the BFTC or the Basic Field Training Course. Here future special agents and intelligent analysts train alongside each other. They eventually will be assigned to one of ...