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English: Combination of bar chart (showing sales of handguns and long guns in the United States since 2000) and line chart (showing number of firearm background checks from the National Instant Background Check System (NICS))
  • Data sources for Version 7
— Gun sales: Dataset / Firearm Sales. The Trace (12 May 2026). Archived from the original on 20 May 2026. "Monthly firearm sales in the U.S., estimated by The Trace using data derived from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System" (freely downloadable data in .csv format)
— NICS checks: NICSFirearmBackgroundChecks:. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (2026). Archived from the original on 2 April 2026. (download link)
  • Data sources for Version 4:
— Gun sales: https://www.thetrace.org/2023/12/data-gun-violence-deaths-america/
Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20240128065745/https://www.thetrace.org/2023/12/data-gun-violence-deaths-america/
— NICS checks: https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_-_month_year.pdf
Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20240129020051/https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_-_month_year.pdf
  • Data sources for Versions 1-3: Gun sale data (for bar chart) from: Brownlee, Chip. Brownlee, Chip (December 30, 2022). "Gun Violence in 2022, By the Numbers". The Trace. Archived from the original on April 4, 2023. Annual gun sales estimates are based on data from the FBI's National Instant Background Check System ——— NICS firearm check data (for line chart) downloaded via link at NICS Firearm Background Checks: Month/Year. FBI.gov. Federal Bureau of Investigation (March 31, 2023). Archived from the original on April 20, 2023.
  • FBI source explains: "These statistics represent the number of firearm background checks initiated through the NICS. They do not represent the number of firearms sold. Based on varying state laws and purchase scenarios, a one-to-one correlation cannot be made between a firearm background check and a firearm sale."
  • SVG source code for these charts was automatically generated by the Vertical Bar Charts spreadsheet, the Line Charts spreadsheet, and The Scatterplot spreadsheet, that are linked at User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG.
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Combination of bar chart (showing sales of handguns and long guns in the United States since 2000) and line chart (showing number of firearm background checks from the National Instant Background Check System (NICS))

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