Colorado gun sales rise after shooting

Some 3,647 requests for state background checks, required to purchase a gun, have been submitted in four days since the deadly incident on Friday, indicating a 43-percent surge compared with the four days prior to the massacre, said Susan Medina, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.

The massacre occurred early Friday when 24-year-old James Holmes opened fire on viewers during the screening of the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, in Century Theater Cinema in Aurora near Denve, Colorado.

The response by people in Colorado to the deadly incident has worried American security officials.

People in the US state are also concerned that Aurora shooting tragedy may trigger the government to limit the open-carry gun law.

“A lot of it is people saying, ‘I didn’t think I needed a gun, but now I do’,” said Jake Meyers, an employee at Rocky Mountain Guns and Ammo in the town of Parker.

“When it happens in your backyard, people start reassessing – ‘Hey, I go to the movies’.”

Despite public outrage at the Aurora shooting rampage, there is no political willingness to end the long stalemate over the toxic gun law issue, particularly in the November presidential election in the country.

DB/MA

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