Florida Didn't Conduct Concealed Weapons Background Checks for a Year: Report

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast


The state of Florida failed to conduct background checks for concealed weapons permits for over a year because the employee tasked with doing them “could not log into the system,” according to the Tampa Bay Times. An inspector general report notes that the state “stopped using a FBI crime database” in February 2016 and the problem went “unresolved” until March 2017, when another employee noticed the issue—meaning that over a year’s worth of concealed carry permits were given out without verification that the applicants did not have a “disqualifying history in other states.” The state saw a “historic spike in applications” for concealed permits, and the time frame coincides with the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando that killed 50 in 2016. In 2016, 245,000 people applied for the permit, and another 275,000 applied in 2017. According to the IG, the employee involved reported the log-in issues only once and never mentioned them again. A department spokesperson was “immediately terminated” and has since “implemented safeguards to prevent this from happening again.”

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[Ptah]

1. Why was 'A department spokesperson was "immediately terminated" '

[NutmegYankee]

3. Something got lost in rewriting the article

"The integrity of our department's licensing program is our highest priority," said Aaron Keller, a department spokesman, when contacted Friday. "As soon as we learned that one employee failed to review applicants' non-criminal disqualifying information, we immediately terminated the employee, thoroughly reviewed every application potentially impacted, and implemented safeguards to prevent this from happening again." From the Tampa Bay Times Original link.

[herding cats]

5. That's a perfect example of why I hate places that repackage news like Raw Story.

Sometimes they butcher articles to spin them and sometimes they butcher them out of haste.

[Ptah]

9. Looks like The Daily Beast isn't paying attention.

[flamin lib]

2. It's gunz. Everbody knows how 'portent gunz is.

Besides, 2nd amendmint an God gimme that rite.

Face it people. We can fix this in two election cycles. Vote with the fervor of a gun nut, write and call your congresscritter with the fervor of a gun nut.

Two cycles. One issue. Back to business as usual.

[herding cats]

4. Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putna made it a priority to speed up the issuing of concealed weapons

Excerpt from the Tampa Bay Times article.

Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam has made it a priority to speed up the issuing of concealed weapons permits since he was elected in 2010. In 2012, he held a news conference to celebrate the state's one millionth concealed weapons permit, noting the time it took to process an application fell from 12 weeks to 35 days on his watch. There are now 1.8 million concealed weapon permit holders in Florida.

Now running for Florida governor as a Republican, Putnam's campaign touts his expansion of concealed carry permits as one of his top accomplishments.

Link to tweet

This is what happens when you play politics with deadly weapons.

[Historic NY]

6. Somebody needs to be held responsible, this guy want to be Gov. but he couldn't

resolve a computer database connection problem. His solution ignore it, is unacceptable. Having employee not authorized to access criminal history using the system. NRA sellouts indeed.

[Historic NY]

7. Wonder how many body bags got filled for this error?

[subterranean]

8. The most shocking aspect of this article...

is that there was ONE employee in charge of conducting about 250,000 background checks per year. Assuming the employee worked five days a week, that's an average of over 960 applications per day!

You'd almost think these background checks were not a high priority for the state of Florida.

[mitch96]

10. "that's an average of over 960 applications per day! "

Hell what about Gun Show Weekends?? Who worked THAT shift.. Sat and Sun all over Florida there are gun shows with people buying like crazy...
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[DetroitLegalBeagle]

11. Gun sales are run separately from CCW applications.

Dealers run the background checks for sales. The employee for the state of Florids runs, or was supposed to run, the checks for the permits.

[mitch96]

12. OOps, your right

tnx
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[paleotn]

13. Of course not....

That would reduce gun sales.