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Washington Gun Control Revisited
This is the data that was employed to analyze the the movement of illegal guns in and out of Washington DC for this blog post.
source directory: washington-gun-control-revisited
Counts of guns traced to and from the fifty states and the District of Columbia [2008 - 2012]
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Statistics Database (http://www.atf.gov/statistics/index.html)
YEAR: Year in which the firearms were recovered
STATE: State
HOMICIDES/100K: The number of homicides per 100,000 residents of that state during the reporting year
TOTAL TRACED: The total number of firearms recovered in the state that year
LOCALLY SOURCED: The total number of firearms recovered in the state that year that also originated in the state
% LOCAL: The percentage of firearms recovered in the state that were locally sourced.
SOURCED/100K: Number of firearms recovered across the US that originated in this state, per 100,000 residents.
TRACED/100K: Number of firearms recovered in this state, per 100,000 residents.
RATIO: The ratio of number of firearms traced (per 100,000 residents) to the number of firearms sourced (per 100,000 residents).
PERCENTILE: The percentile rank of SOURCED/100K for the state for that reporting year.