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  Page 4 is the crime gun recovery in state from that state.
  
  Yes, that's what I said. That's very different from:
  
  California appears to be the source for its own crime guns 85% of the traces
  
  Looking back at it though it appears that it's actually 58.3%, not 36%. The denominator is 143,466, not 231,784 - they based their stats on the "traced to a known purchaser" for the state-by-state data.
context: It's not 85%, it's 36%.
  Page 3 is the page that shows where the guns used for the crime came from. 83,781 of the crime guns came from California out of 231,784 traced guns.
  You're referring to page 4, which shows where the guns were recovered. 85% of the crime guns traced were recovered in California, not necessarily originally from California. >
  
  Edit:  using page 3 has the total trace requests.
  
  You're referring to page 4, which shows where the guns were recovered. 85% of the crime guns traced were recovered in California
  
  Page 4 is the crime gun recovery in state from that state. 
  Even lists the top recovery states for in California on the same page.
  CA 83,781
  NV 1,581
  BJ 1,292
  AZ 963
  TX 834
  Which seems fairly consistent with the previous years of ATF trace data on the state with Arizona, Texas and Nevada being the largest out of state sources.
  Like the entire point of the individual state reports is to determine what is accounting for their crime guns.