Record gun sales

[Ichiban]

I guess people are seeing some writing on the wall or something.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22208917/colorado-gun-background-checks-break-records

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.

But Medina said Saturday's figures exceeded the previous greatest number of background checks on Black Friday this year, when 4,028 were processed.

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.

"We had to call in extra staff,"Medina said. "The wait times were high."

Saturday morning the wait time on a check was a little more than 15 minutes. By Sunday, it was 18 hours, Medina said.

Medina said Monday the backlog meant wait times of about 19 hours.

[gunman42782]

We sold more guns this weekend than ever on a normal weekend (not machine gun shoot),  it was unreal.  Everybody that walked in seemed like they bought a gun. 

[billt]

This is getting more convoluted every time it happens. We supposedly have more people who want these type of weapons banned because of this latest shooting. Yet as soon as it happened, we end up setting national sales records for these exact same guns, along with the magazines that feed them. Is this the "outrage" the liberals keep whining about?

[tombogan03884]

Actually it's just a few liberals and the media who want guns banned in reply to a mental health issue.
It's the same mentality that would address obesity by forks.

[PegLeg45]

Actually it's just a few liberals and the media who want guns banned in reply to a mental health issue.
It's the same mentality that would address obesity by forks.

Exactly........ a group of anti-freedom zealots......who gain power from the growing herd of sheepistic idiots who blindly follow...... just because they need a personal bandwagon to ride on so they can feel warm and fuzzy inside.

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[kmitch200]

Actually it's just a few liberals and the media who want guns banned in reply to a mental health issue.
It's the same mentality that would address obesity by forks.

It's not forks it's the spoons! If we are going after a problem, we need to keep focused.
IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN!

I was in Cabela's the other day. The gun counter looked like they were giving away free ammo. (they weren't, I checked)
 

[billt]

I was in Cabela's the other day. The gun counter looked like they were giving away free ammo. (they weren't, I checked).

Same here. The J-Hooks for AR, P-Mags and Glock mags were stripped clean. Normally they have so many hanging they fall off on to the floor. People in line with cart fulls of ammo, along with a huge crowd all gathered around the AR rack. Salesman had open boxes of them all over the gun counter. Insane.

[WatchManUSA]

Take it from an arms dealer, gun sales are through the roof.  I worked at the gun shop last Saturday and people were waiting over an hour to buy a gun.  I didn't have to give a sales pitch because people were buying.  About 30% of the people bought multiple guns.  One guy dropped over 4 grand on 5 guns and ammo.

I had Sunday off but I heard it was just like Saturday.  One sales guy who only worked weekends sold 30 guns.

Yesterday. Monday, was slightly less busy than Saturday.  We now have a few bare spots on the wall where we once had AR's and AK's.

[tombogan03884]

Broke the Black Friday record .

[Frosty]

Was at my range last Wednesday for a class, walked in and the showroom was packed. Folks buying damn near everything they could get their hands on . I heard the sales guy tell folks there was a 6 hr. wait to get the CBI (Colo. Bureau of Investigations) clearance, that was at 1700 hrs., also heard the computers @ CBI shut down due to overload. The paper the next day said there where 4500 applications for guns that day (12/15/12). It's flipping crazy!