Following a landmark victory at the Supreme Court, a judge in New York has mandated the state to remit almost half a million dollars in legal fees to the National Rifle Association (NRA).
Last month was "the fifth-highest August on record in terms of federal background checks for gun transfers since the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System was established 25 years ago."
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the industry's trade group, confirmed that July 2023 marked the fourth year in a row with over one million adjusted background checks each month.
An unsecured government cloud email server that contained approximately three terabytes of internal U.S. military emails, including a completed SF-86 questionnaire with sensitive personnel information, was connected to the internet without a password for two weeks, potentially exposing this sensitive data to anyone who knew its IP address.