Emblem of the NICS. The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is a U.S. system for determining if prospective firearms or explosives buyers' name and birth year match those of a person who is not eligible to buy.
Paul Gray, who founded heavy-metal band Slipknot, died of a drug overdose in an Iowa motel in 2010. His doctor, Dr Daniel Baldi, faces 9 counts of involuntary manslaughter stemming from the deaths of Gray and others he prescribed drugs to.
He was 40 years old. Paul Walker, 40, died on Nov. 30 after getting into a fiery car accident in Southern California. The car Paul was in was the only one involved in the crash, though it also killed the driver, Roger Rodas, 38. Roger and Paul co-owned Always Evolvingâs race team.