Adam Putnam blamed one employee for bungling gun background checks. Records show the issue went deeper.

Tampa Bay Times:  When state investigators last year found that Florida failed to review results from a national background check for concealed weapons permits, one employee took the fall.

Lisa Wilde, a manager in the state's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, was terminated after it was discovered she didn't retrieve results of an FBI-database background check, an oversight that led to nearly 300 people getting a license to carry a gun in public who were supposed to be denied.

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