MSM again distorts/lies.. Florida Background Checks

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bobbojama

Discussion Starter · Jun 11, 2018

Body of Email I received from NRA..

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.

DISTORTED TRUTHS FROM - Adam Putnam?s office stopped reviewing concealed weapons background checks for a year because it couldn?t log in | Tampa Bay Times

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glenwolde

· #2 · Jun 11, 2018 (Edited)

From what I see Florida doesn't use NICS to process transactions, they use a State resource called FDLE. The exception is pawnbrokers redeeming pawned firearms. So the NRA is just flat wrong there. In Florida a concealed carry license doesn't exempt you from the purchase background check, but there are several states where it does.

It's confusing, but if the NRA can't get it right it's not surprising a reporter got it wrong. It's entirely possible one of those 365 individuals could have (and probably did) purchase a firearm.

FDLE - FAQs1
https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations/permanent-brady-state-lists
https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations/permanent-brady-permit-chart

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