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Originally Posted by USNRet93
11 states have universal background checks for all gun sales, including those between private citizens(essentially unenforceable tho), without gun registry.
BTW-Most adults surveyed, including NRA members, favored UBC..altho probably w/o gun registry.
https://www.politifact.com/ohio/stat...man-said-70-8/ |
One poll funded by pro gun control organizations is hardly definitive. Politifact also has a strong leftist bias.
From Politifact:
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According to the poll, 24 percent of the respondents identified themselves as NRA members. That means of the total of 816 gun owners, 196 self-identified as NRA members.
Of all 816 gun owners, 83 percent responded that they supported a criminal background check for everyone who wants to buy a firearm.
For the 196 who said they were NRA members, the poll showed that 72 percent supported background checks.
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So of the small sampling of people who CLAIMED to be gun owners, slightly under a quarter of them CLAIMED to be NRA members of which 72 percent supported some UNDEFINED background check. Those being polled might have been dishonest about NRA affiliation in order to skew the results.
Again from Politifact:
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Janine Parry, director of the Arkansas Poll and a professor at the University of Arkansas, said that the polls do not reflect a large enough sample of NRA members to reach the conclusion that 70 to 80 percent of NRA members support background checks.
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Polling expert Steven Smith, a professor of social sciences and political science at Washington University in St. Louis, told PolitiFact that the smaller the actual subgroup in the national population, the lower the precision and the larger the margin of error.
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Andrew Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Polling Center, said he is dubious of any Interactive Voice Response (IVR) polling as the one done by Public Policy Polling.
"They have incredibly low response rates and there is evidence that only the most politically motivated people really want to talk to a computer about their opinions," he said.
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In spite of all this, Politifact still rates the poll results as "mostly true", because, well, that is the result they wanted.