background checks

A leading dating app is making it easier for users to get background checks on matches before setting up dates. What Happened: Tinder, a dating app owned by Match Group Inc (NASDAQ: MTCH), announced the launch of background checks on its platform via Garbo. Garbo was founded in 2018 and was ...

The week of June 21 is setting up to be one of the busiest IPO weeks in some time with more than dozen companies that could go public with listings. Here is a look at some of the biggest IPOs of the week with the details investors should know. Unicycle Therapeutics: Biotech company Unicycle...

What Happened Sturm Ruger & Company Inc (NYSE: RGR) and American Outdoor Brands Corp (NASDAQ: AOBC) were on the rise Monday after the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported both month-over-month and year-over-year increases in February firearm background checks. Notably, nearly every month...

Shares of gun stocks Sturm Ruger & Company Inc (NYSE: RGR) and Smith & Wesson Holding Corp (NASDAQ: SWHC) are getting a bit of a boost this week after the FBI reported yet another record month of NICS background checks and Sturm Ruger delivered a Q3 earnings beat. October’s NICS...

Smith & Wesson Holding Corp (NASDAQ: SWHC) and Sturm Ruger & Company Inc (NYSE: RGR) are usually fired up in anticipation of the Firearm Background checks data released by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The NICS is a system followed in the US to determine if the...

It turns out gun makers like Smith & Wesson Holding Corp (NASDAQ: SWHC) and Sturm, Ruger & Company (NYSE: RGR) may not have had as bad of an August as the FBI background check data for the month seemed to indicate. Gun stocks have sold off hard in recent weeks following the release of the...

President Obama has scheduled a televised town hall meeting with CNN’s Anderson Cooper this week called “Guns In America,” leading many to speculate that gun control could be a primary focus of Obama’s final year in office, according to USA Today. While gun owners wait to...

While Black Friday shopping numbers fell short of expectations, there was a report of 185,345 firearm background checks on November 27, a single-day record. The Washington Post reported that the previous single-day high was 177,170 background checks, following the Sandy Hook killings in 2012. The...