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

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.Between November and March, the state’s gun background check system did not receive records from the Utah court system that would prevent someone who had either been f