The prospect of tighter gun laws has gun sales soaring and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation remains flooded with requests for background checks on buyers.
On a normal day a background check would take about 15 minutes, but the CBI is so backed up it’s been taking as much as eight days.
CBI spokesperson Susan Medina says their processors have been overwhelmed.
“When you look at a traditional day, a week, a month, a year; they come in in the morning, they work all day, and they go home at night, and the queue is at zero,” Medina said.
But as of Thursday afternoon they had 11,400 waiting to be processed. They’ve extended hours, brought in extra resources, but can’t keep up with the demand. It’s created a long wait time for gun buyers.
Gun Background Check Wait Times Remain Long In Colorado « CBS Denver
I was at a gun shop in Denver yesterday, which has sold all of their self-reloading rifles, and are completely out of .223/5.56 ammo. Two weeks ago they had about five hundred rifles. Prices for some have tripled at gun shows.
Feinstein and Obama believe that their job is to subjugate the American people, and take their money and freedom away.
If those in charge were intelligent they would leave the gun issue alone . But they don’t seem very intelligent do they ? They do seem to be evil .
Why would people leave the gun issue alone ? The majority of the world is not leaving the issue alone, does not make the rest of the world evil or unintelligent.
Things change over time, hence why you probably don’t wear a tricorn hat most days of the week.
Andy
Why are you commenting about things which you don’t understand and have no impact on you? This is none of your business.
Americans are 100X more likely to be killed in a car accident than by a rifle.
Americans are more likely to die in a car accident than by firearms ?
Motor vehicle traffic deaths
•Number of deaths: 34,485
•Deaths per 100,000 population: 11.2
All poisoning deaths
•Number of deaths: 41,592
•Deaths per 100,000 population: 13.5
All firearm deaths
•Number of deaths: 31,347
•Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.2
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm
You just made that up 100x didn’t you?
Andy
Typical leftie – incapable of reading or comprehending
“Americans are 100X more likely to be killed in a car accident than by a rifle.”
Are you a complete idiot, or on meds?
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/americans-are-100-times-as-likely-to-be-killed-by-a-car-than-by-a-rifle/
Americans are more likely to be killed by a hammer or club than a rifle.
Andy, do you have a reading comprehension problem?
Large numbers of people drown in their bathtubs each year. In order to save lives a law could be passed to either ban them or mandate a lifeguard on standby.
Andy, you are absolutely correct that “Things change over time…”, and while I agree with you that some things change over time, there is one universal constant, some people will always do bad things and those that are not able to defend themselves will always be the victims for those doing bad. Not a microsecond of human history has been otherwise.
“Feinstein and Obama believe that their job is to subjugate the American people, and take their money and freedom away”
Yeah right. You’ve just spent all that money on guns instead. That will teach Obama to try and take it away.
You rightwingers go on and on about the federal government and yet none of you would move abroad and still think the US of A is the best, and by far the best, country on earth. Go figure.
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Andy
What a psychotic moron.
At least I don’t make up figures Steve :p
You have a problem and don’t want to admit to it , a sure sign of addiction. In this case to guns.
But you are right, none of my business. I don’t live over there.
Carry on. As you were.
Andy
You are dumber than dog poop, lazy and incapable or reading or comprehending.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/americans-are-100-times-as-likely-to-be-killed-by-a-car-than-by-a-rifle/
Perhaps the FBI is making up statistics