DAY 3: Colorado Gun-Buyers Held Hostage

[Bailey Guns]

OK, class. Time for a pop-quiz. Here's the question:

Q: If CBI institutes a computer system upgrade on May 1, 2010, the likely outcome will be?

1. Everything will go smoothly. No one will notice. The processing of redundant insta-checks through the CBI system will not be affected.
2. There will be some minor glitches. Overall, the transition will go smoothly and the processing of redundant and unnecessary CBI checks will continue with just minor delays for buyers.
3. There will be major issues. Most gun buyers in Colorado will experience severe delays in the processing of redundant and unnecessary background checks. Dealers will lose business.
4. It will be a total pooch-screw. As usual, law-abiding gun buyers will have their Constitutional rights denied as they are subjected to a redundant and unnecessary CBI background check process...that doesn't work...for going on 3 days. Dealers will lose business and take the brunt of complaints from defacto denied gun purchasers who don't understand, and don't care, that it's not the dealer's fault the unnecessary and redundant CBI system isn't working.

If you picked #4, congratulations! You're correct.

We're going on DAY 3. Colorado gun-buyers (those wanting to buy from a dealer) are going on DAY 3 their rights are being denied by CBI.

As usual with a government beauracracy, no one is accountable. We (anyone in the gun business or wanting to buy a gun from a dealer) just have to suck it up and deal with government incompetence.

[Bailey Guns]

• Colorado.gov

• InstaCheck

Request a Background Check
CDPS

• CDPS
• CBI
• InstaCheck Unit

Alert!
The system is experiencing technical difficulties and is currently unavailable. You will not be able to submit background checks at this time, try back later.

Please begin by using the menu bar on the left. You may use this menu to navigate through the website.

• InstaCheck
  Colorado Bureau of Investigation
  InstaCheck Unit
  P.O. Box 280629
  Denver, CO 80228-0629
  Tel: 303.239.4283 Fax: 303.239.5848

[Bailey Guns]

Try back later??? For 3 days???

I think maybe CBI may have outsourced their customer service to H&K.

[BigBear]

Not saying anything here (put on your tinfoil), but one of the best ways to control is not through fear, nor intimidation. It is through menial operations of the "status quo" of business. With the fast paced world of todays "hurry up and wait" beaucracy, people will soon come to "expect" it to take a long time to get background checks, etc.... Eventually, people will "expect" to fill out paperwork, sending it in four times, waiting months on an answer, having to resubmit because of a government side error, etc. Until the day comes when people think, "Why bother purchasing a gun, it takes too damn long to get one anyways and I have other things to do. Besides, you can't have this combo of firearms in this county and when I travel to this state I'll have to this and this and this and".... Another one for the "it'll never happen here/to me" camp.

[Bailey Guns]

I guess I should say I'm just speculating that the ongoing denial of gun purchases is due to the system upgrade. I don't know that for a fact.

I do know they were instituting a new system on Sat as it was announced on the InstaCheck page. Since Sat, instachecks aren't. Coincidence? I don't think so. But I suppose there could be another explanation for the outage.

[Ridge]

Had my gun in 45 minutes on Friday...went to get my rifle out of pawn today, and a 20 hour wait!

[Bailey Guns]

Had my gun in 45 minutes on Friday...went to get my rifle out of pawn today, and a 20 hour wait!

Yeah...for something the NICS system could do in about 20 seconds.

[Mtn.man]

Outsourced,,, "Hellooo my nam iz charles my I hep you vewy much"

[cowboykjohnson]

Bought one at Sportmans in Loveland on Saturday... only took 45 mins....?

[SNAFU]

Outsourced,,, "Hellooo my nam iz Jagadev my I hep you vewy much"