“On June 8, the Times reported that state investigators last year found Florida failed to review results from a national background check for concealed weapons permits, an oversight that led to 291 people getting a license to carry a concealed weapon in public who were supposed to be denied.”
why even have background checks at all when state employees in charge of Licensing dont even look at them.
I agree that it’s not a good situation, but none of them were involved in crimes, so it wasn’t a disaster. Also, just shows how weak of a protection background checks are.
Wasn’t likely that anybody would have gotten hurt. Most people who go through the trouble of applying for a concealed carry permit aren’t going to do crimes. People who actually get concealed carry permits commit fewer violent crimes per capita than do police officers.
If you have a permit you don’t even have to go through background checks again for 7 years thus it enables you to buy legally without one.
The dealers I use keep all my information on file so if i buy one through an FFL dealer all I have to do is sign the 4473, pickup the gun, and walk out.
These 291 didnt have a permit. they applied for one and were disqualified from getting one due to the background checks. They were issued the permit because the employees did NOT check the background reports. The 291 permits were revoked once (3 years later) the background checks were looked at.
Just FYI, in FY 2016, about 268,000 new concealed carry permits were issued (*274,000 were applications were made). Only 291 were found to be issued to people that shouldn’t have had them. For PR, this is disastrous. In real life, not so much.
BS you seem to be working overtime at “not getting it”.
If the permit is issued in a state that requires a BGC and you are issued the permit you do not have to have a background check performed when purchasing firearms through an FFL dealer.
As I said, my dealers simply keep all my info on file and all I have to do is sign the FFL when I pick one up as a result.
None of those 291 were involved in any crime. It was potentially bad, but nothing bad did happen. It meant that 1 in 1000 of the new permits that year weren’t vetted. Also, my guess is that those 291 were for things done in the past, and the applicants didn’t even think they were still relevant.
ALL APPLICATIONS WERE NOT VETTED. 291 were revoked when properly vetted.
did you not read the article.
“On June 8, the Times reported that state investigators last year found Florida failed to review results from a national background check for concealed weapons permits, an oversight that led to 291 people getting a license to carry a concealed weapon in public who were supposed to be denied.”
They failed to review results from national background check ON EVERY APPLICATION.
291 were revoked once every application was screened,