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.
Heâs been a bullet point on the anti-lethal injection brief ever since. (Oddly, Morinâs execution is not on this list of recent botches.) But Morinâs most prominent afterlife is a very different object lesson: not medical ethics, but spiritual warfare. It seems the last woman he kidnapped, Margy Mayfield, survived the encounter by converting the desperate fugitive to evangelical Christianity; this story is still stocked and sold by Focus on the Family.