What state buys the most guns? (Guam twice as many as the District of Columbia?)

The Daily Caller ^ | January 3, 2013 | Mike Piccione, editor, Guns & Gear

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If we use the National Instant Criminal Background Check System , or NICS, as a proxy for gun sales we see that Kentucky is the runaway leader in gun sales for 2012.

Four states exceeded one million Federal Bureau of Investigation NICS checks; Kentucky, Texas, California and Illinois. Kentucky is the only state to exceed two million background checks.

Background checks are only a proxy measure for gun sales. A buyer may purchase more than one gun through a gun dealer, depending on the local laws, once the background check comes back authorizing the purchase.

The list of states and their 2012 total NICS background checks is compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

State and Total NICS checks for 2012:

States with over 1,000,000 background checks in Bold.

Alabama 431,356
Alaska 85,342
Arizona 339,663
Arkansas 246,193
California 1,132,603
Colorado 414,838
Connecticut 237,496
Delaware 30,724
District of Columbia 449
Florida 834,319
Georgia 465,560
Guam 930
Hawaii 17,428
Idaho 136,482
Illinois 1,036,061...

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Kentucky is the only state to exceed two million background checks.

Lexington, KY. Home of Bud's Gun Shop.

If I were in the same state as Bud's, I would probably own 200 guns by now. LOL.

[Tupelo]

"Concealed handgun permit holders have monthly NICS checks ran on them in Kentucky." That explains the Kentucky numbers. The real shocker though was Illinois and Californicate.
I wonder if their numbers are skewed in a similar manner as Kentucky's

[meyer]

Correction: NCIS gun checks/1000 people.

If they send Ziva for mine, I will gladly surrender. :-)

Maybe not the gun though...

Just sayin'

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"Guam? Twice as many as DC? IT'S A GONNA' TIP OVER!"