A failure in the FBI’s Criminal History Database System on Thursday morning brought gun sales to a halt over the weekend for local and national firearms dealers.

Ken Banks, owner of Shooter’s World in Cortez, said "We couldn’t deliver (firearms) until we got the background checks completed."

"It didn’t kill us ... but it did hold sales back a little bit and of course we’re annoyed and we resent it," Banks said. "But it’s not like the end of the world."

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Armstrong said that the computers were back u it prevented dealers from performing the necessary background check that is required by the Brady Bill before a person can purchase a firearm.

On average the background check takes between five and ten minutes and searches for any prior felony charges that a potential gun buyer may have faced.

Robert Armstrong, an agent in charge for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, said that the problem resulted from an FBI database failure, but because CBI is connected to that system, it affected the CBI checks as well.

"It was just a hiccup in the system," Armstrong said, adding that computer hacking was not considered as a possible cause for the computer failure.

Susan Kitchen, an agent in charge of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s Insta-Check program, said that the FBI was still looking into the cause of the computer problem as of Monday afternoon.

"The program is designed with considerable firewall protection, so I would doubt that hacking was the problem," Kitchen said.

Banks said he doesn’t believe the official reasons being given for the failure.

"The media gives out — no doubt — a big lie that says that it’s a data-based problem at the FBI’s end of it," Banks said.

"I doubt too many people believe that, but we’ll never know," he said. "Naturally we suspect that (the failure) is tied into the Million Mom March and all of the Democratic anti-gun-rights cinema, but we have no way of knowing — it’s just a feeling."

Armstrong said that the computers were back up and running by 4 a.m. Sunday morning and that the system was no longer back-logged.

"When the system came back up yesterday, we were able to clean it out of all the back checks," Armstrong stated. "All of those checks that were in the queue are now caught up and we are operating normally."

Before opening shop on Monday, Banks said that he expected to have a small delay in the morning while the old background checks cleared themselves out.