An analysis in RMarkdown for the TrendCT story: Increase in gun purchases triggered by Connecticut state legislation

The data is/are from the Buzzfeed repo that scraped the FBI NICS PDFs on the number of firearm checks by month, state, and type.

Check the Trend CT repo for the scripts and data sets that were used and generated. Just want the seasonally adjusted state per capita data? Here's the csv.

There are many caveats to the data, but the basic thing to take away is that a background check does not necessarily mean a gun sale. The Buzzfeed repo has more details.

This analysis will go over the process used to put together the story. In short, the background checks were normalized for annual population by state, adjusted for seasonality, and then charted.