SPOKANE, Wash. — Thousands of gun purchases across Washington state are in limbo while officials race to get the state’s court system back online.
“We’ve had a lot of people who are very angry,” said Chris Loftis, the communications director for Washington State Patrol.
The standard waiting period to purchase a firearm in Washington is 10 business days. With the court systems down, however, that process has been halted for an indeterminant amount of time.
Loftis said WSP’s verification system is linked through the courts, and their hands are tied.
“There’s no other work around, there’s no other way that we can do this to get the same sort of information,” Loftis said. “It has to go through this system. So when this system is down, the entire system is down.”
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