Current Events > Florida didn't do concealed weapons background checks for a year

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because the employee in charge of doing the background checks couldn't log into the system

https://tinyurl.com/yb3hf3nb


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.
During that time, which coincided with the June 12, 2016 shooting at Pulse nightclub that left 50 dead, the state saw an historic spike in applications for concealed weapons permits. There were 134,000 requests for permits in the fiscal year ending in June 2015. The next 12 months broke a record, 245,000 applications, which was topped again in 2017 when the department received 275,000 applications.
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Vamp_Aubrey posted...

because the employee in charge of doing the background checks couldn't log into the system

What is this employee doing if he or she can't even log in for a whole god damn year
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CableZL posted...

Vamp_Aubrey posted...

because the employee in charge of doing the background checks couldn't log into the system

What is this employee doing if he or she can't even log in for a whole god damn year

Shitposting on CE like all of our other working CEmen?
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Lmfao Florida Man strikes again
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A_Good_Boy posted...

CableZL posted...

Vamp_Aubrey posted...

because the employee in charge of doing the background checks couldn't log into the system

What is this employee doing if he or she can't even log in for a whole god damn year

Shitposting on CE like all of our other working CEmen?

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And we just let this go?
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CableZL posted...

Vamp_Aubrey posted...

because the employee in charge of doing the background checks couldn't log into the system

What is this employee doing if he or she can't even log in for a whole god damn year

maybe he called the IT helpdesk and they told him to call the other IT helpdesk and that IT helpdesk told him to call the first IT helpdesk so he gave up
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Those tax dollars hard at work
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I feel like the bigger deal is they only had one guy in charge of all weapon background checks.
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And this is the biggest argument against stronger gun control laws.

If they aren't able to properly enforce the ones we already have, what makes you think stricter (and harder-to-enforce) ones will make a difference? They likely just won't get enforced either.
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why is the application able to be approved without completing the background check

i think the biggest problem is the ability to override the background check
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Vamp_Aubrey posted...

why is the application able to be approved without completing the background check

i think the biggest problem is the ability to override the background check

Cause that particular background check isn't actually mandatory. The FBI have noted before that they have trouble getting precincts to actually want to use it.
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smh
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bump
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god bless florida
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