Even my Trumpnik loon of a local Congresscritter [Matt Gaetz] thinks that Putnam screwed up.

Apparently the checks were run by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, but the mail room clerk didn’t know how to get the results. Unless she was the final approval authority in the Department, why didn’t those above her notice the results were missing for over a year? They processed about 350,000 applications during the year, but only checked 365 of them after the problem was reported by the Department IG.

Putnam says that people couldn’t buy a gun because the store would run that check … unless they bought the weapon in a private sale or a gun show where no checks take place and the possession of a carry permit would be considered proof that the individual was OK.

Florida. The only government less competent than Trump’s.