Reuters Health - If every state in the U.S. had mandatory background checks for gun and ammunition purchases and required traceable bullets, firearms-related deaths might plunge by more than 80 ...

Without bullets, they point out, a gun is a useless piece of metal. And unlike guns, bullets must continually be replaced. ... they also have to talk about firearms background checks as well." ...

The guns don't have serial numbers and are difficult for law enforcement to track, but the people who own them show up in background checks when they try to buy bullets.Benitez said California's ...

The guns don't have serial numbers and are difficult for law enforcement to track, but the people who own them show up in background checks when they try to buy bullets.

State Attorney General Xavier Becerra has argued that the ammo-check provision of Prop 63 was working to keep bullets away from dangerous people, moves to reverse court order.

States with background checks for those who buy guns and bullets also have fewer school shootings By Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor Dec. 6, 2016 4:45 PM PT ...

Under federal and many state laws, the same people prohibited from buying guns are prohibited from buying bullets. But virtually no systems are in place to enforce that. In 46 states, anyone can ...

California residents don't have to pay for and pass a background check every time they buy bullets, a federal judge has ruled. The Tuesday ruling by U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez took effect ...

Earlier this week President Obama announced a series of executive actions on gun control—a frank acknowledgment of the political impossibility of getting even the most modest gun background-check ...