{"id":90103,"date":"2020-03-16T17:47:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T23:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/background-check-requests-for-gun-sales-in-colorado-double-in-past-week\/"},"modified":"2020-03-16T17:47:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T23:47:04","slug":"background-check-requests-for-gun-sales-in-colorado-double-in-past-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/background-check-requests-for-gun-sales-in-colorado-double-in-past-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Background check requests for gun sales in Colorado double in past week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8b0f0805-a876-4b61-ae9b-9c7f73e0533f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" alt=\"A gun lock on a pistol at the Meriden Police Department, Fri., June 21, 2019.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A gun lock on a pistol at the Meriden Police Department, Fri., June 21, 2019.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Dave Zajac\/Record-Journal via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Toilet paper. Hand sanitizer. Canned soup. And guns.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Bureau of Investigation background check numbers between March 10 and Monday indicate firearms are flying off the shelves the same way groceries are in the state.<\/p>\n<p>In that seven-day span, the CBI received 14,604 background check requests, compared to 7,357 during the same timeframe last year. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a 98% increase.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/the-journal.com\/articles\/171380-background-requests-for-gun-sales-in-colorado-double-in-past-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more at coloradosun.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>receives 14,604 background check requests between March 10 and Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[120,685,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-90103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90103"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=90103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}