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.
The Austrian singer suffered severe head injuries in the crash before losing his life just two weeks before his 41st birthday on Feb. 6, 1998. 7. David Halberstam. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam tragically died at age 73 in a car crash south of San Francisco on April 24, 2007.