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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohioans didn't need news of the latest gun-related tragedy in Colorado to decide to buy a gun or get a concealed weapons permit.

The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/OxqAwD) reports that gun purchases by Buckeye State residents have been trending up for years, despite the decrease in violent and property crime.

The FBI ran 276,156 background checks - the seventh-most in the United States - on Ohio gun buyers in the first half of this year. The total is projected at more than 550,000 checks for 2012, which would be an 18% increase over the year before. Background checks by the FBI in Ohio last year increased by 19% over 2010.

Gun dealers say it's driven by the perception that crime is up locally amid a bad economy.

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