Issues with background checks were first highlighted over the summer, as Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam ran for governor in a Republican primary against Ron DeSantis, who defeated Putnam and went on to win the general election in November.The Tampa Bay Times reported in June that state investigators found a former Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services employee, who had been promoted from a job in the mailroom, failed for a year to conduct one of the national background checks for concealed-weapons licenses.