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.
Stephen Peter Morin was executed by lethal injection on March 13, 1985. Morin withdrew all appeals after pleading guilty to the 1981 capital murder of Carrie Marie Scott. Morin was later convicted of the killings of Janna Bruce in Corpus Christi and Sheila Whalen in Golden Colorado. In the early morning hours of Dec. 11, 1981 in San Antonio, Morin shot and killed 21-year old Carrie Marie Scott in front of Maggieâs Restaurant, her place of employment. She interrupted Morin in the process of stealing her car. She confronted Morin and was shot.