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FL failed to do firearm bkgnd check for more than a year

solus

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For more than a year, the state of Florida failed to conduct national background checks on tens of thousands of applications for concealed weapons permits, potentially allowing drug addicts or people with a mental illness to carry firearms in public.

A previously unreported Office of Inspector General investigation found that in February 2016 the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services stopped using a FBI crime database called the National Instant Criminal Background Check System that ensures applicants who want to carry a gun do not have a disqualifying history in other states.

The employee in charge of the background checks could not log into the system, the investigator learned. The problem went unresolved until discovered by another worker in March 2017 — meaning that for more than a year applications got approved without the required background check. unquote
http://www.tampabay.com/florida-pol...-checks-for-a-year-because-it-couldnt-log-in/

 
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Maybe the employee in charge of the background checks who could not log into the system decided that it was not important enough to bother with. Maybe the employee was correct: Criminals don't bother going through the legal procedure; only law-abiding citizens go through the legal procedure. Maybe when the employee said "Oh well, whatever, nevermind" to his/her self, he/she was correct; this lapse will have no effect on crime levels. Maybe the employee was educated and knowledgeable enough to know that wearily stamping government paperwork is a waste of time as far as effort to reduce crime is concerned.

Firearms laws/regulations have no effect on crime. Crime goes on, driven only by other causative factors. Firearms laws/regulations have only one reason for existence: Because it is politically expedient at the time and place for them to exist.

Would this lapse have any effect on crime in an inner city high crime area? No, because inner city crime rates are strongly driven only by other factors.

Would this lapse have any effect on crime in a rural low crime area? No, for the same reason.

If hardware store employees could read my mind, they would not sell me a doorknob. If mens' clothing stores could read my mind, they would not sell me a belt. Regulating gasoline, knives, belts, rope, bed sheets etc would have no effect on societies' crime and harm rates. Crime and harm rates are driven by other forces, not the availability of commonly available objects.
 

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Response from Marion Hammer..

DATE: June 9, 2018
TO: USF & NRA Member and Friends
FROM: Marion P. Hammer
USF Executive Director
NRA Past President


The media isn't getting it right and anti-gun Democrats don't want to get it right -- for some, it's all about attacking a candidate for political reasons. This issue is extremely important to all firearms owners and license holders. Truth and facts matter, so here is what really happened.

THE FACTS:

The Division of Licensing under the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (DOACS) did, in fact, do background checks on applicants for licenses to carry concealed weapons or firearms.

Background checks were done through FCIC (Florida Criminal Information Computer system) and NCIC (National Criminal Information Computer system -- the national FBI fingerprint data base) and they also did a NICS check (National Instant Check System), which is the name-based background check system.

The NICS system is the same system used by retail firearms dealers to do background checks when a person buys a firearm.

ALL THREE BACKGROUND CHECKS WERE DONE.

During the time the employee failed to do her job, approximately 350,000 applicants for carry licenses were processed. Of those 350,000, 365 had a disqualifier based on the NICS background check.

The employee should have uploaded those 365 into the internal computer system to stop the processing of those applications. She did not. So those 365 applicants got their licenses anyhow.

Although they got their licenses to CARRY firearms, they still would not have been allowed to purchase a firearm from a firearms dealer because the same NICS background check would have been performed by a dealer and would have stopped them from purchasing a firearm.

A license to carry does not exempt a person from the background check required when you purchase a firearm. The license ONLY exempts a license holder from the 3-day waiting period.

When the Division discovered the problem, the employee was let go. The Division then ran new background checks on all 365 applicants who initially had NICS name-based disqualifiers. Of those 365, 74 were cleared and 291 still had disqualifiers, so their licenses to carry firearms were immediately suspended.

THOSE ARE THE FACTS. The facts don't fit narrative being pushed by the anti-gun political opponents of the Commissioner of Agriculture, Adam Putnam, who is a candidate for Governor.
 

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DATE: June 9, 2018
TO: USF & NRA Member and Friends
FROM: Marion P. Hammer
USF Executive Director
NRA Past President


The media isn't getting it right and anti-gun Democrats don't want to get it right -- for some, it's all about attacking a candidate for political reasons. This issue is extremely important to all firearms owners and license holders. Truth and facts matter, so here is what really happened.

THE FACTS:

The Division of Licensing under the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (DOACS) did, in fact, do background checks on applicants for licenses to carry concealed weapons or firearms.

Background checks were done through FCIC (Florida Criminal Information Computer system) and NCIC (National Criminal Information Computer system -- the national FBI fingerprint data base) and they also did a NICS check (National Instant Check System), which is the name-based background check system.

The NICS system is the same system used by retail firearms dealers to do background checks when a person buys a firearm.

ALL THREE BACKGROUND CHECKS WERE DONE.

During the time the employee failed to do her job, approximately 350,000 applicants for carry licenses were processed. Of those 350,000, 365 had a disqualifier based on the NICS background check.

The employee should have uploaded those 365 into the internal computer system to stop the processing of those applications. She did not. So those 365 applicants got their licenses anyhow.

Although they got their licenses to CARRY firearms, they still would not have been allowed to purchase a firearm from a firearms dealer because the same NICS background check would have been performed by a dealer and would have stopped them from purchasing a firearm.

A license to carry does not exempt a person from the background check required when you purchase a firearm. The license ONLY exempts a license holder from the 3-day waiting period.

When the Division discovered the problem, the employee was let go. The Division then ran new background checks on all 365 applicants who initially had NICS name-based disqualifiers. Of those 365, 74 were cleared and 291 still had disqualifiers, so their licenses to carry firearms were immediately suspended.

THOSE ARE THE FACTS. The facts don't fit narrative being pushed by the anti-gun political opponents of the Commissioner of Agriculture, Adam Putnam, who is a candidate for Governor.

Thanks Medwheeler, but...
Ms Hammer is controversial & contentious at best but reading Ms HammerÂ’s explaination seems to significantly differ from the 5 June 17 FL Dept of AG IGÂ’s report which states the supervisor hadnÂ’t logged in since Feb 16. News media states this report was ignored until earlier in 2018.

Further, Ms Hammer’s illustrious past coupled with a seemly complete lack of substantive evidence causes me as well as should cause others more than a moments pause!

Where does, did, her “FACTs”or data come from?

Just saying from a critical thinking perspective,ya know?
 
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