NICS has blocked more than 600,000 people convicted of a crime from acquiring a weapon since 1998. When the background check system flags a purchaser for a felony or another qualifying conviction, the transaction is stopped. A surprising number of people with open arrest warrants attempt to buy a gun.
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I had been sent to interview Patrick Swayze, who died yesterday from pancreatic cancer at the age of 57, in advance of his run as Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, in 2006. We met at a dance school off Covent Garden and I recall him entering the room with his trademark hobble, the result of a teenage football injury.