Thousands of gun sales on hold for weeks across blue state as advocates threaten action

The agency typically processes between 400 and 1,000 background checks a day, according to WSP.

"This is frustrating for everyone, us included," WSP spokesperson Chris Loftis told Fox News Digital in an email Friday. "Unfortunately, in this situation, there are no work-arounds or detours. Good people are working around the clock to get the system fixed, safe to use, and up and going. Patience is really our only option."

But Mitchell and other Second Amendment advocates say that's not good enough.

"The state has denied untold numbers of citizens their right to obtain firearms for almost two weeks," Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb said in a statement. "This amounts to a mass deprivation of civil rights under color of law."

SAF is threatening to sue if the state doesn't get the system back up and running promptly.

Mitchell argued the government would never get away with suspending people's freedom of speech, religion or privacy rights for two weeks, he said.

"You talk about tyranny. This is the border of it," he said. "The govern

Thousands of gun sales are on hold across Washington state due to a court computer system outage preventing background checks from being completed. Two weeks into the outage, Second Amendment advocates are threatening to sue.

"In 10 years of operation … this is unprecedented for me at any level, state or federal," Daniel Mitchell, who owns a gun store in Vancouver, told Fox News Digital. "We've never seen a shutdown that's gone this long."

The Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts announced on November 4 that the state's courts network was taken offline after detecting "unauthorized activity."

Local courts have had to adjust timelines for case filings, trials and other legal actions. And the Washington State Patrol (WSP) has not been able to complete any mandatory background checks on firearms sales since Nov. 1.