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Firearm sales jump 39 percent in December, 19 percent in 2012
Background checks for individuals purchasing firearms increased in every state in December – and in 48 of the 50 states and in Washington, D.C. for full-year 2012 – according to data compiled by the FBI.
Compared to the total number of background checks completed from January through December of 2011 all but two states saw net increases in gun sales in 2012. …
Washington D.C. saw the largest year-to-year increase with sales jumping 49.7%. Wisconsin followed with 45.4%, then New Jersey with 42.5%, New Hampshire with 40.9% and Rhode Island with 39.3%.
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Folks take this seriously.
Schadenfreude on January 2, 2013 at 11:44 PM
2 guns behind every blade of grass. God bless America!
tom daschle concerned on January 2, 2013 at 11:44 PM
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Schadenfreude on January 2, 2013 at 11:44 PM
What?
A 77.4% decline?
sharrukin on January 2, 2013 at 11:50 PM
all confiscation and registration attempts must be met with non compliance. this is the line.
No further.
tom daschle concerned on January 2, 2013 at 11:53 PM
Got to love it.
She’ll declare him a terrorist, the little piggie that she has become.
Schadenfreude on January 3, 2013 at 12:41 AM
This isn’t being done by a country fearful of a certain kind of gun being banned. This is being done by a society preparing for war.
single stack on January 3, 2013 at 1:28 AM
Under the radar?
OldEnglish on January 3, 2013 at 2:13 AM
That would take a lot of people to stay silent.
It just seems rather odd.
sharrukin on January 3, 2013 at 2:27 AM
43.9% of Utah residents already own guns. Maybe they’ve hit the saturation point?
Washington Nearsider on January 3, 2013 at 7:18 AM