Did Florida Fail To Perform NICS Checks On Permit Holders?

By Tom Knighton

Over the weekend, a firestorm has erupted as pro-gun candidate Adam Putnam found himself under the gun. It seems a report surfaced that Putnam’s office failed to perform required NICS checks. In fact, it’s claimed that no one logged into the NICS system at all.

Adam Putnam, Florida’s agriculture commissioner and a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for the state’s governorship, declared his candidacy on May 10, 2017, from the steps of a courthouse in his hometown outside of Tampa.

“People want leadership that’s conservative,” he said at the time. “They’re tired of people misleading them about the scope of the problem or the difficulty of the solutions.”

That same day, an investigator for the Office of Inspector General submitted a report that found that the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, which processes concealed weapons permits in the state, neglected to do federal background checks on tens of thousands of people who had applied for concealed weapons permits for about a year.

Though it is more than a year old, the report was published Friday after the Tampa Bay Times obtained it through a records request.

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Source:: Bearing Arms