Colorado background check submissions for guns break all records
Source: Denver Post
This weekend set a new record for all single-day background check submittals in Colorado for potential gun purchases, according to Colorado Bureau of Investigation officials.
The first day after news of one of the worst mass shootings in America, when a gunman killed 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., requests to buy guns in Colorado surged to more than 4,200.
Exact figures weren't available Monday morning while submittals were being processed, CBI spokeswoman Susan Medina said.
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The surge following the massacre was so massive it overwhelmed the system, Medina said. So many background checks were submitted the process that normally usually takes minutes turned into wait times of more than 12 hours....
Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22208917/colorado-gun-background-checks-break-records
To be expected, I guess.
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Legalized recreation alcohol and record firearms sales.
What could possibly go wrong?
Mean drunk, barroom brawl, ten feet tall and bulletproof, don't listen to him it's the liquor talking.
... and the last couple days has been just crazy in the sporting goods dept.
Lines and lines of camo-clad runts stocking up with guns, and whole crates of ammo.
Would love to ask these 'tough' mountain guys what they're all so scared of... but I'd probably get fired.
