Stupid Gun news of the day (Part 1)

[Snowboarder_Bo]

Does this count as “stupid gun news” or is Bone gonna post it in his thread?

For more than a year, Florida failed to do national background checks that could have disqualified people from gaining a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

The lapse, revealed in an internal report that was not widely known about until Friday, occurred during a time period when there was a significant surge in the number of people seeking permission to legally carry a concealed weapon. Florida does not allow the open carry of weapons, but more than 1.9 million have permits to carry guns and weapons in public if they are concealed.

The state ultimately revoked 291 permits and fired an employee blamed for the lapse after an inspector general’s report detailing the problem was sent in June 2017 to top officials in the department who oversee the program. The Tampa Bay Times was the first to publish information about the report, which pointed out that the state failed to check the National Instant Criminal Background Check System from February 2016 to March 2017.

Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, a Republican running for governor who has touted his efforts to make it easier for people to obtain concealed-weapons permits, said the state did conduct its own criminal background checks on those applying for permits during that time period.

Putnam blamed the problem on the negligence of a department employee.

“The former employee was both deceitful and negligent, and we immediately launched an investigation and implemented safeguards to ensure this never happens again,” Putnam said in a statement.

Democrats and gun control advocates quickly criticized Putnam over the incident and said he should resign. Putnam has raised the ire of gun control advocates for his proclamation last year that he was a “proud NRA sellout” who supports the National Rifle Association. He also said that he would not have signed the new gun and school safety law enacted by the Florida Legislature in the aftermath of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

“Career politicians like Mr. Putnam think this is just another bad day at the office — but when you conceal a level of negligence that endangers every resident, and every child, in Florida, you forfeit any moral right to lead,” said former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine, one of the Democratic candidates running for governor.

But what about the person at fault?

The final report issued in June 2017 states that an employee in the Division of Licensing did not run applications through the national system because she couldn’t log into the database. The employee is quoted in the report as saying that she “dropped the ball.”

The Times interviewed the employee, Lisa Wilde, who told them she was working in the mailroom when she was given oversight of the database in 2013.

“I didn’t understand why I was put in charge of it,” Wilde told the newspaper.

[Slash1972]

It’s Positive because the more people who carry guns in public, the safer we all are.

[foolsguinea]

“Proud sellout” is somewhere between “dehydrated frog” and “human corpse turned into a life-sized hand-puppet to torment its onetime family in life” as far as things to be.

[ElvisL1ves]

FTR, Putnam is the leading candidate for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, and has described himself as “a proud NRA sellout”. Big Sugar actually owns a controlling interest in him, with the NRA being a junior partner.

But expect him to get questioned on this almost like Hillary getting questioned on her e-mails.

[ElvisL1ves]

@Slash1972

It’s Positive because the more people who carry guns in public, the safer we all are.

And the higher our chances of being involved in a “Tactical Situation” where we can all act out our fantasies and just feel alive.

[k9bfriender]

@Slash1972

It’s Positive because the more people who carry guns in public, the safer we all are.

But it is negative because the unqualified and untrained employee that was allowing those who were ineligible to purchase a gun to pass a background check was fired, and now criminals and domestic abusers will have a harder time arming themselves, meaning fewer guns and less safety.

[/:rolleyes:]

Is it just me, or do these guys really like passing the buck down to their employees. Sure, she did wrong, but she did wrong under the direction and supervision of those whose job it was to direct and supervise her to do it right.

Sounds like she wasn’t deceitful, and the negligence was on the part of the person who assigned her the job.

[Projammer]

@Fear_Itself

FBI agent does back flip while dancing, shoots bar patron in leg.

Update:

FBI agent who accidentally shot a man after back flip in Denver club is charged with assault

An off-duty FBI agent who, authorities say, accidentally shot someone after his gun flew from his holster as he was doing a back flip inside a Denver bar has been charged with second-degree assault.

The Denver District Attorney’s Office said Chase Bishop, 29, turned himself in Tuesday and was charged with the Class 4 felony, punishable by two to six years in prison and a fine of up to $500,000. The Denver Sheriff’s Department inmate database shows that Bishop has been booked in the Downtown Detention Center.

I always thought assault required intent and that this would have been processed as reckless endangerment or something along that vein. But I suppose the DA knows what he’s doing.

[Fear_Itself]

A Colorado Springs man faces a criminal citation after shooting himself in the leg while trying to kill a raccoon just after midnight Wednesday morning.

…

“The male stated he was attempting to shoot a raccoon on a telephone pole, with his revolver handgun, and accidentally shot himself in the lower leg,” a police report says.

Man charged after he shoots self in attempt to kill pesky raccoon

[Muffin]

@Fear_Itself

Man charged after he shoots self in attempt to kill pesky raccoon – The Denver Post

Another gun nut to embarassed to admit that he was masturbating with his gun when it went off.

[Defensive_Indifference]

@Muffin

Another gun nut to embarassed to admit that he was masturbating with his gun when it went off.

Masturbating with a gun gives new meaning to “gun nut”.

[Siam_Sam]

@Muffin

Another gun nut to embarassed to admit that he was masturbating with his gun when it went off.

What, exactly, went off?

[ElvisL1ves]

“Lower leg”, huh?

[k9bfriender]

@Fear_Itself

Man charged after he shoots self in attempt to kill pesky raccoon – The Denver Post

If not his leg, what else was he using as a backstop?

Seems firing at something on a telephone pole is the perfect angle to get a nice ballistic trajectory that carries on with lethal velocity for a good long while.

There is also quite a bit of expensive equipment on and around the telephone pole that the cable, phone, and electric companies would probably rather not have destroyed.

There is also the overall legality. You do need a license to hunt raccoons legally, unless they are in your house.

[eschereal]

“… he was attempting to shoot a raccoon on a telephone pole …” could be read in one of two ways. For it to make sense, he was up on the telephone pole and the trash panda was coming up after him.

[k9bfriender]

@eschereal

“… he was attempting to shoot a raccoon on a telephone pole …” could be read in one of two ways. For it to make sense, he was up on the telephone pole and the trash panda was coming up after him.

That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

Also, probably exactly what happened.

[ElvisL1ves]

@k9bfriender

You do need a license to hunt raccoons legally, unless they are in your house.

That’s where the stand-your-ground laws come in?

[Muffin]

He wouldn’t have been the first person to make the mistake of shooting at a racoon that is sitting at the top of a wooden pole. Rocket Racoon - Oh Yeah - YouTube

[eschereal]

@ElvisL1ves

That’s where the stand-your-ground laws come in?

Climbing up a power pole, being chased by a furry bandit, sounds a lot like not standing your ground.

[ElvisL1ves]

Oh, *he *climbed the pole? I assumed it was the bandit-faced rat. They’re much better at it.

Okay, we have a Non-Defensive (because failed and cowardly) Gun Use, with 1 injury (to the shooter himself, nearly a member of the Darwin Awards site). Thank Og for the Second Amendment!

[eschereal]

@ElvisL1ves

Oh, *he *climbed the pole?

That was my inference. He shot himself in the leg while trying to shoot a raccoon on the pole. Do the math (or assume that there is some kind of flaw in his story).