Utah Revokes Concealed Carry Permits After Screwing Up Fingerprints

By Bob Owens

Folks, if you live in a state where getting fingerprinted is part of the concealed carry permitting process, make sure that the person taking your fingerprints gets a good set of prints. If you don’t, you might find yourself running afoul of FBI background check requirement that requires a permit be rejected if two consecutive sets of prints fail to pass muster:

Utah state officials are revoking concealed weapons permits this year at almost record rates because of unreadable fingerprints.

The state has revoked 399 concealed weapons permits through June. That’s more than any of the final-year totals going back to 2012, The Salt Lake Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1NhOuu0 ).

The increase in revocations is because of a new state rule that calls for permits to be pulled or suspended if there are unreadable fingerprints in the file, said Jason Chapman, a firearms supervisor with the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification. Previously, the state waited for a person’s permit to run out and just get new fingerprints when the person submitted a new application.

“It’s not necessarily that the person did anything bad if we’re taking their permit away. We just couldn’t complete background checks,” Chapman said.

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Source:: Bearing Arms