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It's not that Alabamians purchased the most. But Alabama saw the nation's largest spike in applications for firearm background checks, a sudden rise of 145 percent, between the months of October and December.

Did this "journalist" ever take math? Alabama had the highest spike on a percentage increase basis while Texas had the largest spike in terms of numbers of applications. Not sure why they focused so much on Alabama given the huge increase in Texas

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"Not sure why they focused so much on Alabama given the huge increase in Texas "

It's from an Alabama newspaper.

Texas newspapers would put their own 'state spin' into the article.