State authorities say requests for background checks for firearm purchases in Colorado are coming in at an unprecedented rate since the mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.
Colorado Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Susan Medina told The Denver Post Monday (http://goo.gl/SaQYk ) that the agency is getting about 3,000 requests a day. She called the figures "unprecedented." The state has received more than 8,800 background check requests in the last week and Colorado set a single-day record for checks with about 4,200 on the day after the Connecticut shooting.
The shooting has prompted calls for gun control, including legislation to ban assault weapons.
Medina says the increase in requests means background checks are taking up to 68 hours to process. It usually takes minutes.
Background checks for guns in CO continue to soar
POSTED: 08:13 AM MST Dec 26, 2012
Gun background checks up in Colo.
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