Likewise, 79% of NRA members support requiring background checks on gun retail employees, 74% would support background checks on all potential gun buyers and 64% support requiring gun owners to report lost or stolen firearms.
Majorities in every state where there is data available overwhelmingly support background checks -- every state.
"If they vote no, they will be siding with the 10% and not the 90% in the United States that support background check legislation, " Carney told reporters.
Right now, 90 percent of Americans support background checks that will keep criminals and people who have been found to be a danger to themselves or others from buying a gun.
Republicans, Democrats, gun owners, independents support background checks.
Right now, 90 percent of Americans -- 90 percent -- support background checks that will keep criminals and people who have been found to be a danger to themselves or others from buying a gun.
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It's silly to conclude that because one poll found 90% support for "background checks, " that translates into a like level of support for this particular piece of legislation.
By now, it's well known that 90% of the American people support universal background checks.
That's why I support comprehensive background checks, so criminals and the dangerously mentally ill can't buy guns.
Ask your member of Congress if they support universal background checks to keep guns out of the wrong hands.
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In particular, it showed 87% of respondents support expanded background checks, with strong backing from Democrats, independents and Republicans.
The MSNBC poll showed 87% of respondents support expanded background checks, with strong backing from Democrats, independents and Republicans.
Keene has also told CNN that he does not support instituting background checks for purchases at gun shows.
Ninety percent of the American people support expanded background checks.
Reasonable advocates of Second Amendment rights are being ill-served by the organization's recalcitrant radicalism -- reflected in the fact that 74% of NRA members say they support universal background checks.
"The 90%" who supposedly support gun background checks is an even more evanescent construct--the result of a poll, which presumably questioned a few hundred randomly called people, few of whom likely had thought deeply about the subject.
Mr Bloomberg told the same NBC programme that opinion polls showed there was overwhelming public support for tighter background checks.
There is some bipartisan support for expanded background checks, especially to keep guns out of the hands of people with mental illness.
Recent polling shows that more than 80 percent of Americans support extending federal background checks to include gun show sales and private purchases.
He opposed the 1994 assault weapons ban and has indicated support for expanding background checks but refuses to endorse a new weapons prohibition.
The mayor's backers cite polls that show widespread support for expanded background checks and plan to use the issue to attack lawmakers who opposed them.
Support for broader background checks on prospective gun owners remains overwhelming.
According to the Pew survey, 85% of the public backs making private gun sales and purchases at gun shows subject to background checks, with comparable support across party lines.
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The compromise between Toomey and Manchin, both owners of guns and "A" ratings from the NRA, was likely to improve the prospects that the Senate might expand background checks by attracting broader support.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who gets high marks from the NRA for his opposition to past gun control efforts, has indicated support for expanding background checks but refuses to endorse a new weapons ban.
The vast majority of Americans -- including a majority of gun owners -- support requiring criminal background checks for anyone trying to buy a gun. (Applause.) So right now, Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are working on a bill that would ban anyone from selling a gun to somebody legally prohibited from owning one.
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Biden said there was widespread support for implementing universal background checks for gun purchases.
It isn't yet clear which other Republicans might support a deal on background checks beyond Mr. Kirk, but Sen.
While the gun lobby has indicated support for some improvements in background checks, it remains opposed to other steps, saying they won't prevent criminals from getting weapons.
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