ATF agents are being sent to retrieve more firearms from people who should have never been able to buy them. Here is an in-depth look into the FBI background-check system and why things go wrong. Illustration: Laura KammermannWASHINGTON—The House on Wednesday passed an expansion of background checks for nearly all gun sales, a cornerstone of the legislative agenda newly empowered Democrats pledged to enact, but one that faces resistance in the GOP-controlled Senate. The legislation passed Wednesday afternoon in a 240-190 vote would be the most significant gun-control measure to clear Congress in decades, were it to become law. But Republicans in the Senate indicated this week they were unlikely to take it up, while gun-control advocates prepared...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 27, 2019 19:42 UTC