You can buy a gun again. Here’s what happened the past 2 weeks, WA State Patrol says

The gun-buying background check process is under way again after a two-week delay tied to a statewide computer system outage, the Washington State Patrol announced Monday.

The Administrative Office of the Courts has been able to restore online services, the agency announced in a news release.

“WSP’s secure automated firearms E-Check or SAFE system regained connectivity with AOC’s data repository on Sunday afternoon after the suspension of data availability was caused by computer system security concerns,” the release reads.

According to State Patrol, the agency receives an average of 700 background check requests each business day.

During the delay, they continued to do non-computer-related work “so that once data services were regained, delayed background checks could be completed quickly.”

In the first eight hours after service was restored, WSP completed more than 6,500 of the backlogged checks, they said.