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AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - New background-check tool lets online daters vet matches for scams, criminal records, and secret spouses Mon Sep 7 23:50:26 2026

A public-records company has launched a free website called "Stud or Dud" that lets singles run background checks on potential dates, a move aimed squarely at the growing epidemic of romance fraud draining Americans of millions. PeopleFinders, a firm with more than two decades in the public-records business, rolled out the platform last week. The […] The post New background-check tool lets online daters vet matches for scams, criminal records, and secret spouses appeared first on American Almanac .

A public-records company has launched a free website called "Stud or Dud" that lets singles run background checks on potential dates, a move aimed squarely at the growing epidemic of romance fraud draining Americans of millions. PeopleFinders, a firm with more than two decades in the public-records business, rolled out the platform last week. The site pulls from publicly available records, address histories, bankruptcy filings, and other data points, and packages them with color-coded red and green flags and what the company calls "compatibility readouts." The pitch is simple: find out whether the person on the other end of a dating app is who they claim to be before you ever meet them in person. CEO Amber Higgins told the New York Post …Open

DAILYCALLER (Harold Hutchison) - ATF Rule Could Cause Classic Showdown Between Mom And Pop Shops Versus Online Retailers Fri Jul 10 21:12:37 2026

‘As a small business, FFL, this would hurt’

A proposed rule by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) could enable consumers to purchase firearms online without having to go to their neighborhood Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL), potentially causing a rivalry to develop between them and online gun retailers. ATF originally proposed the new rule on “non-over-the-counter” sales by FFLs May 8, with the agency seeking to alter its regulations to account for technological advances since 1993, when the Brady Act was signed into law by then-President Bill Clinton, allowing online orders and for the Form 4473 and National Instant Check System (NICS) to be run remotely instead of in-person. The proposed rule has led to clashes between one online gun retailer and…Open

STRIPES (Linda F. Hersey) - GOP lawmaker urges ‘permanent fix’ to end VA restrictions on the gun rights of veterans requiring fiduciaries | Stars and Stripes Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 2026

The bill would bar the VA from identifying veterans requiring money managers for inclusion in a database of people banned from possessing firearms.