Good news for gun owners, most Americans are with you:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Less than half of Americans, 47%, say they favor stricter laws covering the sale of firearms, similar to views found last year. But this percentage is significantly below the 58% recorded in 2012 after the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, spurred a nationwide debate about the possibility of more stringent gun control laws. Thirty-eight percent of Americans say these laws should be kept as they are now, and 14% say they should be made less strict.
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Americans Say Possessing Handguns Should Not Be Banned
As support for stricter laws regulating the sale of guns has dwindled, the percentage of Americans who say handguns should be banned has remained low. About one in four Americans say handgun possession should be banned for everyone except the police and “other authorized persons” such as security or the military. A near-record high of 73% of Americans now say that handguns should not be banned.
While Americans overwhelmingly say that there should not be a ban on handguns, this has not always been the case. When Gallup first asked this question in 1959, 60% favored a ban on handguns, except for those carried by police officers and similar authorities. By 1975, that number had slipped to 41%, with 55% saying they opposed such a ban. The percentage opposing has stayed above 50% ever since.
Source: Gallup
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