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For months, Utah’s gun background check system didn’t have the latest mental health records. The problem? A computer glitch.

(John Locher | Associated Press file photo) In this Jan. 19, 2016, file photo, handguns are displayed at a trade show in Las Vegas, where some Utahns have purchased guns. For four months, Utah’s gun background check database lacked a chunk of criminal records pertaining to mental incompetence because of a database glitch in the state court system. And for about 13 months, due to a lapse by another state agency, the federal firearm background check system was missing the same information.