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MN Gun background checks increase more than nation
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Post subject: MN Gun background checks increase more than nation  Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 4:03 pm |
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Quote: Gun background checks increasePosted at 4:04 PM on May 27, 2009 by Bob Collins (0 Comments) MPR's Than Tibbetts has sent along an update of a post I made last January with an increase in gun sales following the election of Barack Obama. According to the FBI, there have been 110,488 background checks for firearms owners in Minnesota since the beginning of 2009. Over a 10-year period, the state averaged 18,500 checks per month. The rate of increase in Minnesota is higher than the national average. Nationally, federal background checks are up about 25 percent. In DC recently, a gun show promoter's advertisement said, "Come and get them while you still can." A story last month on NPR suggested that goes for ammunition, too. So, I make that nearly a 50% increase over the ten year average. Is that right?
Using their numbers: 110,488/4 = 27622
27622-18500 = 9122
9122/18500 = 49%
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Post subject: Re: MN Gun background checks increase more than nation Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 4:42 pm |
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DeanC wrote: Quote: Gun background checks increasePosted at 4:04 PM on May 27, 2009 by Bob Collins (0 Comments) MPR's Than Tibbetts has sent along an update of a post I made last January with an increase in gun sales following the election of Barack Obama. According to the FBI, there have been 110,488 background checks for firearms owners in Minnesota since the beginning of 2009. Over a 10-year period, the state averaged 18,500 checks per month. The rate of increase in Minnesota is higher than the national average. Nationally, federal background checks are up about 25 percent. In DC recently, a gun show promoter's advertisement said, "Come and get them while you still can." A story last month on NPR suggested that goes for ammunition, too. So, I make that nearly a 50% increase over the ten year average. Is that right? Using their numbers: 110,488/4 = 27622 27622-18500 = 9122 9122/18500 = 49% Must be because originally I assumed they included May as well, but in that case it comes out to a 19% increase, which while still impressive, is below the national average.
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DeanC
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Post subject: Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 4:51 pm |
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If you go back to the original article there are a number of hyperlinks I did not bother to format into my cut and paste job.
The data is only through April as can be seen here: http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/nics/state_totals.htm
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Post subject: Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 6:16 pm |
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You're expecting me to read??!?!? 
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DeanC
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Post subject: Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 7:43 pm |
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kecker wrote: You're expecting me to read??!?!? And do math!
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DeanC wrote: kecker wrote: You're expecting me to read??!?!? And do math! Dam you... my head hurts
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:06 pm |
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If you like pictures better... 
2009 Totals (JAN, FEB, MAR, APR)
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kecker
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:33 pm |
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gyrfalcon wrote: If you like pictures better... 2009 Totals (JAN, FEB, MAR, APR) Ok help me with the legend...are those ranges of percentages?? If so, then there is no way the national average is 25%. And I have a heard time believing those are raw numbers, unless those are in tens of thousands or something.
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:47 am |
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kecker wrote: Ok help me with the legend...are those ranges of percentages?? If so, then there is no way the national average is 25%. And I have a heard time believing those are raw numbers, unless those are in tens of thousands or something. Sorry, I should have been clear... the map I made shows thousands of NICS checks broken into four different ranges 3 to 36 thousand, 36 to 77 thousand, etc... For the totals in 2009 thus far.
I don't have state by state data for prior years so I can't generate a map for those periods in time. The FBI basically just provides national totals for prior years. In the four months listed in 2009 they're reporting 5,030,950 NICS checks.
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:55 am |
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Gotcha...okay.
I was thinking they were percentage increases or per capita checks or something and was looking at the map trying to find patterns in behavior changes and such.
But for the most part the highest states are also the ones with larger populations so it makes sense.
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:20 pm |
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This may be a more relative way to look at things. Here is the Jan-Apr 2009 NICS data along with each states' population (2008) and then with NICS checks divided by the population. This shows how states compare with gun purchases (well, NISC checks) per 1000 people. Apparently those Kentuckians are buying like mad!
Code: State NICS totals Population NISC checks per 1000 people
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Alabama 109,432 4,661,900 23.47
Alaska 19,794 686,293 28.84
Arizona 84,378 6,500,180 12.98
Arkansas 77,751 2,855,390 27.23
California 280,338 36,756,666 7.63
Colorado 119,726 4,939,456 24.24
Connecticut 79,300 3,501,252 22.65
Delaware 7,513 873,092 8.61
DC 148 591,833 0.25
Florida 209,438 18,328,340 11.43
Georgia 155,278 9,685,744 16.03
Guam 155 173,456 0.89
Hawaii 3,785 1,288,198 2.94
Idaho 39,431 1,523,816 25.88
Illinois 275,743 12,901,563 21.37
Indiana 93,313 6,376,792 14.63
Iowa 47,492 3,002,555 15.82
Kansas 53,207 2,802,134 18.99
Kentucky 690,440 4,269,245 161.72
Louisiana 82,096 4,410,796 18.61
Maine 19,806 1,316,456 15.04
Maryland 36,183 5,633,597 6.42
Massachusetts 36,561 6,497,967 5.63
Michigan 136,171 10,003,422 13.61
Minnesota 110,488 5,220,393 21.16
Mississippi 57,120 2,938,618 19.44
Missouri 134,731 5,911,605 22.79
Montana 34,994 967,440 36.17
Nebraska 22,764 1,783,432 12.76
Nevada 42,826 2,600,167 16.47
New Hampshire 26,426 1,315,809 20.08
New Jersey 18,885 8,682,661 2.18
New Mexico 39,943 1,984,356 20.13
New York 81,814 19,490,297 4.20
North Carolina 147,455 9,222,414 15.99
North Dakota 15,765 641,481 24.58
Ohio 149,710 11,485,910 13.03
Oklahoma 89,488 3,642,361 24.57
Oregon 72,748 3,790,060 19.19
Pennsylvania 241,720 12,448,279 19.42
Puerto Rico 2,614 3,954,037 0.66
Rhode Island 5,668 1,050,788 5.39
South Carolina 76,666 4,479,800 17.11
South Dakota 22,370 804,194 27.82
Tennessee 126,208 6,214,888 20.31
Texas 362,243 24,326,974 14.89
Utah 91,400 2,736,424 33.40
Vermont 8,518 621,270 13.71
Virgin Islands 701 108,448 6.46
Virginia 111,922 7,769,089 14.41
Washington 133,188 6,549,224 20.34
West Virginia 54,052 1,814,468 29.79
Wisconsin 74,534 5,627,967 13.24
Wyoming 20,128 532,668 37.79
Average= 19.49
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:41 pm |
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BigBlue wrote: This may be a more relative way to look at things. Here is the Jan-Apr 2009 NICS data along with each states' population (2008) and then with NICS checks divided by the population. This shows how states compare with gun purchases (well, NISC checks) per 1000 people. Apparently those Kentuckians are buying like mad! Code: Kentucky 690,440 4,269,245 161.72 That's over eight times the national average, and over four times the per capita average of the next closest state (Wyoming @ 37.79 / 1000)
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kecker
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 5:39 pm |
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Yeah, that's a pretty big outlier. Did I miss something that happened in Kentucky this year?? That's a little to extreme to just be coincidence, gotta be something behind it.
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:53 am |
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Yea, you'd think the NCIS system would show far fewer names being run in KY, since there are only two last names.
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BigBlue
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 6:12 pm |
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The May NICS stats are published out there now too. The trend in KY remains. Across the board though May was noticeably slower than the rest of the months. We must be starting to come down the back side of the 'rush to buy' hill finally.
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