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.
This undated photo provided by wife Deb Weekley via Clackamas County Sheriff's Office shows Mark Cartier. Cartier, who died early Thursday, June 14, 2012 after falling about 1,000 feet on the south side of Mount Hood, was an experienced mountaineer from Portland, a Clackamas County sheriff's officer said.