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.
Edmund G. Pat Brown, 90, the affable and accomplished California Democrat who served as his state's governor from 1959 to 1967 and whose son also served as the state's chief executive for eight years, died Feb. 16 at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., after a heart attack.