{"id":1888,"date":"2013-12-23T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/12\/23\/90-support-universal-background-checks\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:23:22","slug":"90-support-universal-background-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1888","title":{"rendered":"90% Support Universal Background Checks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12360,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/campaign.r20.constantcontact.com\\\/render?llr=qbu9jncab&amp;v=001L9m-OEIPJ7UA_7Bf0OQCsb2xLKZIBKbUrBGtCkD-bC3w4dhI15-RUdjWcYIiQIewWQw7VugOir-ZjMt51oShhWwZ3MlkrxrH8T3CANasSfG_hJT77nZiUj3zsiB6FQzl7jbYbxYF4XIi10aQ0tBSfjN0GkolBWpY3Xf3o-GQ5A0berO_N85lEiXd9EVwPPj3ParjhTg98V2cgi9CpaGTMXRPoNx7XF4ENsQhj6JH94b_kxreJDSCpRcwwJFdsG9A2kUhnOMOrJNsHqocksVjhxLcTOlfhMQmP198dqBfWiVhSpeFaCgDj-I4YYgOWBY5_ag5LdMCWwBTtoRz6FEv_5DgaoxMKY64eCl4weWXpqAIc3fDTwI6eg%3D%3D&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12361,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/r20.rs6.net\\\/tn.jsp?e=001SaKxBSXdGBa4Pj1yM4tvoHRBHRQnlqJq2hbk93Iebw1BSwgwpnov2Z0J4TusR2D6oQGyPs05e_FLa2qCx8tAIAELDPt0CUvVwAqQmvRf8m5JfUEXpaEyJ29VFsSEKotNbattcSyLqkzooeHNbTY6oEFw7wplYAoI44rNPuUX2oE=&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12362,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/r20.rs6.net\\\/tn.jsp?e=001SaKxBSXdGBYthKeBV7NY771h0L7O7wtaNybspkxH_HNzYwL2fHGb_2Nh9fbj_Eh3Lbj98HUpHg4_wgeWy-gAcG3zuBbLe91H89NWt4KbgfzfbGJMherfIDppRfweNZvHgPJU4jMjtImSBZxUOjiMeF5zAcxSJDzw-Sn7_WMWqI4=&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12363,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/r20.rs6.net\\\/tn.jsp?e=001SaKxBSXdGBYF3ZLqvymkKOHxqQzgsBKzDMAhCCpXEO_GT5H7SMgeo-bOXm-p25uYU5c_oXUfirVtykwqTUamCHhpVJQNbFvI0JCIfnzRS2_K7JRRQ2GwfR4ssE5rBzso8CXhd2y7MmMEXnldkYVVQ3Yh18mmzXD74M2ubwZNTlI=&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nYou know how all we&#8217;ve heard for the past year is that 90% of Americans support universal background checks? Well, not so fast.<\/p>\n<p>The National Shooting Sports Foundation has released a poll today that shows only 40% of Americans want universal background checks at gun shows. The difference in the poll results is because contextual detail was added to the question. Instead of asking do you want to close the &#8220;gun show loophole&#8221; or other such nonsense, the poll points out that most sales at gun shows are conducted with background checks and are by FFLs.<\/p>\n<p>The poll goes further. Only 39% of respondents thought that requiring a background check for transferring a firearm between friends or family members would reduce violent crime. That&#8217;s a long way from 90% in my calculations.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was conducted in November for NSSF by McKeon and Associates. The poll sample included over 1,200 respondents and contained a margin of error of +\/- 4.1%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campaign.r20.constantcontact.com\/render?llr=qbu9jncab&amp;v=001L9m-OEIPJ7UA_7Bf0OQCsb2xLKZIBKbUrBGtCkD-bC3w4dhI15-RUdjWcYIiQIewWQw7VugOir-ZjMt51oShhWwZ3MlkrxrH8T3CANasSfG_hJT77nZiUj3zsiB6FQzl7jbYbxYF4XIi10aQ0tBSfjN0GkolBWpY3Xf3o-GQ5A0berO_N85lEiXd9EVwPPj3ParjhTg98V2cgi9CpaGTMXRPoNx7XF4ENsQhj6JH94b_kxreJDSCpRcwwJFdsG9A2kUhnOMOrJNsHqocksVjhxLcTOlfhMQmP198dqBfWiVhSpeFaCgDj-I4YYgOWBY5_ag5LdMCWwBTtoRz6FEv_5DgaoxMKY64eCl4weWXpqAIc3fDTwI6eg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The release on the poll results with more details is below<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\n<b>Americans Don&#8217;t Think &#8216;Universal Background Checks&#8217; Extension for Gun Shows Are Needed, National Poll Finds <\/b><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">\nNEWTOWN,<br \/>\n Conn. &#8212; Only four out of ten Americans support so-called &#8220;universal<br \/>\nbackground checks&#8221; at gun shows after being informed that the vast<br \/>\nmajority of firearms sales at these shows are transacted by licensed<br \/>\nretailers that already conduct such checks through the National Instant<br \/>\nCriminal Background Check System (NICS) as required by federal law.  The<br \/>\n poll results stand in contrast to the vague claim often reported in the<br \/>\n media and attributed to gun control proponents without important<br \/>\ncontextual detail that 90 percent of Americans surveyed support<br \/>\n&#8220;universal background checks. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\">\n<div align=\"left\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">\n&nbsp;&#8220;These<br \/>\n findings were the among the results of a national scientific poll of<br \/>\nmore than 1,200 Americans conducted in November by McKeon &amp;<br \/>\nAssociates and released today by the National Shooting Sports Foundation<br \/>\n (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry.<br \/>\n  The McKeon poll found that only 40 percent of respondents said that<br \/>\nextension of &#8220;universal background checks&#8221; to private transactions at<br \/>\ngun shows are necessary, while 53 percent said they are not necessary<br \/>\nand 7% said they did not know. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\">\n<div align=\"left\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">\nThe<br \/>\n Americans polled also said by a combined 74 percent margin that<br \/>\nconducting background checks against an incomplete database was not<br \/>\neffective at all or not very effective while 54 percent said that<br \/>\nrequiring background checks for transferring guns between friends and<br \/>\nfamily members was not at effective at all or not very effective in<br \/>\nreducing violent crime. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\">\n<div align=\"left\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001SaKxBSXdGBa4Pj1yM4tvoHRBHRQnlqJq2hbk93Iebw1BSwgwpnov2Z0J4TusR2D6oQGyPs05e_FLa2qCx8tAIAELDPt0CUvVwAqQmvRf8m5JfUEXpaEyJ29VFsSEKotNbattcSyLqkzooeHNbTY6oEFw7wplYAoI44rNPuUX2oE=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"links to hi-res JPG\" height=\"201\" src=\"http:\/\/nssf.org\/share\/images\/122013_UBC_effectiveness.jpg\" style=\"padding: 5px;\" title=\"Click for hi-res JPG\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe<br \/>\n poll also discovered that 92 percent of Americans agree that the states<br \/>\n should submit all records of persons federally prohibited from owning a<br \/>\n firearm to the FBI\u2019s National Instant Criminal Background Check Systems<br \/>\n (NICS), passing legislation if needed. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\">\n<div align=\"left\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">\nSome<br \/>\n 70 percent of the survey sample  also said that did not believe that<br \/>\ngovernment should mandate that all firearms  produced incorporate \u201csmart<br \/>\n gun\u201d technology should it become commercially  available. Only 17<br \/>\npercent approved of a  mandate, while 13 percent didn\u2019t know. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\">\n<div align=\"left\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001SaKxBSXdGBYthKeBV7NY771h0L7O7wtaNybspkxH_HNzYwL2fHGb_2Nh9fbj_Eh3Lbj98HUpHg4_wgeWy-gAcG3zuBbLe91H89NWt4KbgfzfbGJMherfIDppRfweNZvHgPJU4jMjtImSBZxUOjiMeF5zAcxSJDzw-Sn7_WMWqI4=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"links to hi-res JPG\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/nssf.org\/share\/images\/122013_AccurateDatabase.jpg\" style=\"padding: 5px;\" title=\"Click for hi-res JPG\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>&#8220;We<br \/>\n commissioned this poll to help determine where Americans stood on the<br \/>\nvarious aspects of how the NICS system actually works today,&#8221; said Larry<br \/>\n G. Keane, NSSF senior vice president and general counsel. &#8220;When<br \/>\nproperly informed of relevant details, it turns out that only four out<br \/>\nof ten, not nine out of ten Americans support so-called &#8216;universal<br \/>\nbackground checks&#8217; at gun shows or for firearms transfers.  The poll<br \/>\nalso found that Americans want a National Instant Criminal Background<br \/>\nCheck System with a dependable and accurate database, which supports the<br \/>\n goal of the FixNICS initiative we launched in 2013 and will continue in<br \/>\n 2014.&#8221; <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\">\n<div align=\"left\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001SaKxBSXdGBYF3ZLqvymkKOHxqQzgsBKzDMAhCCpXEO_GT5H7SMgeo-bOXm-p25uYU5c_oXUfirVtykwqTUamCHhpVJQNbFvI0JCIfnzRS2_K7JRRQ2GwfR4ssE5rBzso8CXhd2y7MmMEXnldkYVVQ3Yh18mmzXD74M2ubwZNTlI=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"links to hi-res JPG\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/nssf.org\/share\/images\/122013_StateLaw_Records.jpg\" style=\"padding: 5px;\" title=\"Click for hi-res JPG\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>The<br \/>\n poll conducted Nov. 6-7 has a margin of error of +\/- 4.1 percent.<br \/>\nRespondents self-identified as 33 percent Democrat, 26 percent<br \/>\nRepublican and 41 percent independent. As to ethnicity, 62 percent of<br \/>\nrespondents said they were Caucasian, 18 percent African-American, 11<br \/>\npercent Hispanic; and 9 percent, other. As to age, 20 percent of<br \/>\nrespondents said they were 18-30; 36 percent, 31-45; 23 percent 46-60;<br \/>\nand 21 percent, 60 or older.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how all we&#8217;ve heard for the past year is that 90% of Americans support universal background checks?&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[232,2773,46],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nssf","tag-poll","tag-universal-background-checks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9625,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions\/9625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}