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.
By ANDREW POLLACK. Akio Morita, the co-founder of the Sony Corporation who personified Japan's rise from postwar rubble to industrial riches and became the unofficial ambassador of its business community to the world, died on Sunday in Tokyo. He was 78. Mr. Morita died of pneumonia, according to Sony.