FBI Releases new stats on background checks completed for 2013

[Dustbuster]

claim is: the best year ever w obama as the # 1 gun salesman !!

Don't leave until you see me!!!

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/reports/1998_2013_state_monthly_totals-123113.pdf

[Dane]

Look at Kentucky! They have a population of just over 4 million and have an average of over 2 million checks a year! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

[jtmaze]

My FIL just sent me that same stat. Over 21 million background checks last year. I wonder how many of those are for new guns and not transfers. JTM We the People of the United States, in order to form a more Perfect Union......

[vontar]

My FIL just sent me that same stat. Over 21 million background checks last year. I wonder how many of those are for new guns and not transfers. JTM We the People of the United States, in order to form a more Perfect Union......

 

My thought was probably only about 3 million buyers, 7 guns each or something like that.

[runco]

I agree, whats up with Kentucky.  Great info., thanks for sharing.

[Murgatroy]

Them damn Texans beat us this year...

[Oh Shoot]

Them damn Texans beat us this year...

 

Hell, not if you figure per population, KY blew 'em away. Even TN did.

 

- OS

Edited January 7, 2014 by Oh Shoot

[serbu50]

Less than 500 guns sold in DC?? How's that low of a number possible?

[Garufa]

Less than 500 guns sold in DC?? How's that low of a number possible?

 

Are you familiar with what it takes to buy one there?  It's a nightmare.

 

Google about for "Emily gets her gun".  Emily Miller is a reporter for the Washington Post who chronicled her experience trying to buy a handgun through a series of articles in that publication.  It was enough to release a book released several months ago.

Edited January 7, 2014 by Garufa

[serbu50]

I know it's a PITA... Shouldn't be. It's America.

[serbu50]

Who's going to add up the list? It just hit me.. These are known transfers. Wonder how many more were built and not sold yet. Awesome. America!!!!

[Oh Shoot]

Are you familiar with what it takes to buy one there?  It's a nightmare.

 

AFAIK, there is one, count 'em one, FFL in DC. And he only transfers guns, not sells them. For $125 per pop.

 

- OS

[Guest kingarmory]

By my math it looks like TN bought 1 gun per 10.7 people this year.  KY is at 1 per 2.7 people :o.

On the flipside, the tofu-eating sheeple in CA bought 1 per 27.8 people

[DaveTN]

Those numbers from KY have to be screwed up. From 1999 to 2005 every year was in the 200K range. 2006 800K, 2007 1.6M, 2008 1.8M, 2009 2.3M, 2010 2.4M, 2011, 2.3M, 2012 2.6M, 2013 1.6M.

10X jump…. Sorry someone is cooking the books.

[Murgatroy]

Those numbers from KY have to be screwed up. From 1999 to 2005 every year was in the 200K range. 2006 800K, 2007 1.6M, 2008 1.8M, 2009 2.3M, 2010 2.4M, 2011, 2.3M, 2012 2.6M, 2013 1.6M.

10X jump…. Sorry someone is cooking the books.

That is a valid point, for the last five years or so it was over two million, then down a million this year...

 

I wonder how valid those numbers are? I don't see know some of them jump all over the board.

[Erik88]

I wish it showed the ranking based on population. That would be interesting to see. 

[Hershmeister]

[quote name="Murgatroy" post="1091241" timestamp="1389140325"]That is a valid point, for the last five years or so it was over two million, then down a million this year... I wonder how valid those numbers are? I don't see know some of them jump all over the board.[/quote] KY runs monthly NICS checks on all CCW holders. Every single month. Artificially inflating their numbers

[Dustbuster]

heck texas had what 1.6 mil compared to our 600k? inalso wonder if the stats include checks from: fast and furious...... the mariana islands one was good poor local gun shop sold 17 guns in one year Sent from my iPhone using [url=http://tapatalk.com/m?id=1]Tapatalk[/URL] Edited January 8, 2014 by Dustbuster

[c.a.willard]

A little shy of 21 million background checks conducted nationwide in 2013.  And "some people" actually want to expand that number.  It's a small miracle the NICS system can keep up as is, even with all the problems with the system.  Hey, maybe whomever designed that system should have built the ACA sight.

[BigK]

I can't help but wonder how far south some of the commie state residents drove to buy a gun. Could that be boosting the numbers in some of the border states?

[whitewolf001]

So outlying American territories like Guam and Puerto Rico fall under NICS too? Huh, learn something new everyday.

[whitewolf001]

Per capita is where it REALLY counts, 6.3% of Texas's overall population bought a firearm while Tennessee's was 9.4%. It may not have been a higher number but it was a better turnout percentage wise.

Edited January 8, 2014 by whitewolf001

[thundersnow]

Them damn Texans beat us this year...

And last year.

[DaveTN]

I can't help but wonder how far south some of the commie state residents drove to buy a gun. Could that be boosting the numbers in some of the border states?

I don’t see how it could. You can’t by a handgun out of state, and you can’t buy a long gun you are not allowed to own in your state.

[BigK]

I don’t see how it could. You can’t by a handgun out of state, and you can’t buy a long gun you are not allowed to own in your state.

 

You saying I can't drive up to Bud's in KY and buy a handgun?