James Brady, former White House press secretary badly wounded in Reagan assassination attempt, dies at 73
James Brady, the White House press secretary who was wounded during an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, has died aged 73.
Brady became a leading gun control crusader after the 1981 attack that left him partially paralysed due to brain damage.
His family said in a statement that he died after a series of health issues at a retirement community in Alexandria, Virginia, where he had been living for the past 18 months.
Brady spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair after being shot, but he and his wife, Sarah, campaigned for a gun law that would be known as the Brady bill.
The law, which was passed in 1993, required a mandatory five-day waiting period for purchase of handguns and also background checks for would-be gun buyers.
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