The Gun Control Poll Mega Thread

mctrinket said:
My head is spinning. When will the lawmakers realize we need sensible and intelligible gun laws that responsible, licensed gun owners can easily understand?
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I agree with you, but think that the current laws are intentionally confusing. I fear that new laws will be far easier to understand. No guns unless you have to use a rod to ram a projectile down the barrel.
 
Poll: Inconclusive Support for Gun Control

Excerpt: "...A Gallup survey conducted just days after Newtown found that 58 percent of American adults support stricter laws covering the sale of firearms, up from 43 percent in 2011. Thirty-four percent believe the laws should be kept as they are, and only six percent believe they should be made less strict. By this measure, at least, the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School has strengthened support for gun control.

But advocates for stricter gun laws continue to face opposition on other fronts, according to a few other findings from Gallup's poll. Only 44 percent of respondents voiced support for a ban on semi-automatic weapons, one commonly-floated solution in the aftermath of Newtown. Fifty-one percent were opposed to such a ban, and both numbers have scarcely changed in the last few years.

And a whopping 74 percent of respondents - a record high - opposed a ban on the possession of handguns, compared to only 24 percent who supported such a ban. A handgun ban has not entered the post-Newtown dialogue on gun control, and given numbers like these, that does not seem likely to change any time soon."
 
In the paper at McDonald's had a front page article on the right margin that reads in bold, Americans are for more gun control in recent poles

but under that it reads "but are against a assaults weapons ban"

Kind of a contradiction since all the new talks of gun control involved a AWB
 
Not a poll but a surprising article about it.

http://www.newsmax.com/US/rasmussen...tive-order-barack-obama/2016/01/08/id/708729/

A majority of Americans oppose President Barack Obama's use of executive powers to enact new gun control initiatives — and they don't believe the controversial move will reduce the number of mass killings that have rocked the nation in recent months, a new Rasmussen Reports poll has found.

According to the poll of 1,000 likely U.S. voters, 58 percent say the government should only do what the president and Congress agree on in gun control matters.


Only 34 percent of those surveyed believe the commander-in-chief should take action alone if Congress does not approve the initiatives he has proposed.

Rasmussen also found only 21 percent believe Obama's executive order, which extends federal government oversight of gun sales, will reduce the number of mass shootings. Another 59 percent disagree, and 20 percent said they are not sure.

Those polled were quizzed on the need for additional gun control — and the results were sharply divided. Some 45 percent believe the United States needs stricter gun control laws, but 50 percent disagree.
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