Florida stopped background checks on concealed weapons permits for a year because of a login error

[turbinetree]

Commissioner Adam Putnam, who is currently running for governor, oversaw the department in question.

LINDSAY GIBBS JUN 8, 2018, 6:12 PM

In a bombshell report, the Tampa Bay Times reports that the state of Florida didn’t conduct national background checks on tens of thousands of applications for concealed weapons permits because an employee in charge of performing the checks couldn’t log into the necessary FBI crime database.

The background checks at the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services stopped in February of 2016 and didn’t resume until another employee noticed in March 2017 — a time span that included the June 12, 2016 massacre at Pulse nightclub that left 50 dead, and a historic spike in requests for concealed weapon permits in the state.

Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, a former Republican U.S. representative currently running for governor in Florida, is the head of the department in question. He proudly calls himself an “NRA sellout.”

Throughout his time as commissioner, Putnam has boasted about how much he streamlined the process of applying for a concealed weapons permit; he was elected in 2010, and in 2012, he held a press conference to celebrate the state’s one millionth concealed weapons permit, and the fact that the wait time to process an application dropped from 12 weeks to 35 days under his watch.

https://thinkprogress.org/florida-stopped-background-checks-840061bdf381/

How fucking convenient from a "law and order" POS, that couldn't even do the job correctly the first time, but he thinks that he is now a fucking doctor, and if someone with PTSD from a combat zone should get a gun................what could possibly go wrong...............

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“As Commissioner of Agriculture, Adam expanded the state’s concealed weapon license program so it is now the largest in the country,” the website reads. “He expedited over 75,000 Florida concealed weapon license applications for active military members and veterans. He believes if you carried a gun in Iraq, you should be able to own one at home.”


solution:

https://gwengraham.com/

[Wounded Bear]

1. Well, yeah, not doing your job certainly "streamlines" it...

[bitterross]

2. I hope the next time he needs a medical procedure it's streamlined

Removing steps from a process certainly does make it go faster. Hope the next time he needs a medical procedure someone streamlines the process by leaving out anesthetic and antiseptic.