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.
Left: Daniel Baldi, Paul Gray's doctor; Right: Late Slipknot bassist Paul Gray. It's been nearly six years since Paul Gray, the late Slipknot bassist, was found dead in his hotel room, and at the time his daughter was three months away from being born, but now she is eligible to sue his doctor, Daniel Baldi in a one of a kind case.