More than 1 million people have been blocked from buying a gun after failing federal background checks since 1998. But some reasons for denial are more common than others. The cornerstone of American gun regulation is the FBIâs National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS.
There were conflicting reports about the cause of death. His daughter Aly Morita said he died yesterday of heart failure at a Las Vegas hospital while longtime manager Arnold Soloway said the actor died of kidney failure at a hospital while awaiting a transplant.
To surfers young and old, Jay Moriarity, famous big-wave rider from Santa Cruz, was a natural-born hero. And so it was all the more terrible when his buddies learned that he had died last week at the age of 22, thousands of miles away in a diving accident.