More Coloradoans buy Weapons in 2009 than ever before

[Ridge]

GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Colorado residents are exercising their Second Amendment rights in record numbers.

Gun sales surged to a new high before President Barack Obama took office in January 2009. One year later, gun sales surpassed the record set in 2008, despite the recession's strong grip.

According to data from the Instacheck Unit of CBI, the office that handles statewide background check requests for any firearm transaction, the office approved 196,980 total background checks in 2008. In 2009, CBI approved 202,613, about half of which were handgun sales.

CBI spokesman Lance Clem said that CBI has been keeping up with the increase in background check requests. But the office has managed to keep the requests to under 30 minutes. The average time for a background check to process in December was 23 minutes, according to CBI statistics. Instacheck also reported a 3 percent increase of gun dealers using the online Instacheck verification rather than calling in on the phone, with 88 percent of total checks happening over the Internet.

Read the rest of this report at PostIndependent.com.

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[Great-Kazoo]

haven't seen this report yet:)

[cebeu]

The comments are starting to roll-in as well, already humorous.

[Mtn.man]

Not counting the private sales.

[Blowby]

That falls in line with the CCW permits applied for in late 2008. I was told by the clerk at the sheriff's office that they are seeing about 3000 per week in process throughout the state of Colorado.

[cowboykjohnson]

Good to hear!

[roberth]

This is good news. I hope we continue the trend in 2010.

Some asshat was on KOA this afternoon complaining that there are too many guns in this country. Some people are so stupid it makes me wonder how they have enough brain cells for involuntary respiration.

The only group of persons with too many guns is the criminal element, which if it wasn't for asshats like the guy who called in, would be in jail for an extended stay, on death row, or 6 feet under.

[SNAFU]

It was great picking up the Post Independent this morning and seeing this.
Especially here in the Asspen Valley. ;)

http://www.postindependent.com/article/20100215/VALLEYNEWS/100219932/1083&parentprofile=1074

Not even in the Asspen Times or the Daily :(

[Irving]

They reported on it on Colorado Public Radio as well.