Poll: Most NRA members support comprehensive background checks

[applegrove]

BY BRETT SAMUELS at the Hill

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/377455-poll-most-nra-members-support-comprehensive-background-checks

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Most National Rifle Association (NRA) members support comprehensive background checks for those purchasing a firearm, according to a new poll.

A Monmouth University poll released Thursday finds that 69 percent of NRA members support comprehensive background checks. Among gun owners not in the organization, 78 percent support requiring background checks for all firearm purchases.

Nearly 90 percent of non-gun owners back comprehensive background checks, the poll found.

Most NRA members, 57 percent, also strongly oppose creating a national gun registry database, while 31 percent support the idea, according to the Monmouth poll.

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[Lee-Lee]

1. As Ive typed out often, its in the details

As a broad concept, most will support it.

But then when you wrote bills that badly implement that broad idea, like ones that mke it a felony for a loan of a shotgun for a duck hunting trip over the weekend or that make it a crime to even hand someone a gun for them to look at, then support quickly fades.

If Democrats would get behind opening NICS to private sellers and mandating its use, and making it as simple as an app or a website or phone call, you probably could have had universal background checks years ago.

But as long as instead the proposed laws all criminalize what is normal and totally non-criminal behavior, like an uncle loaning a nephew a shotgun for a hunting trip, and serve to make felons out of people for actions that have no harm to society and no criminal intent then it won’t happen.

[underpants]

2. Not surprised

I don't think most NRA Members aren't the crazed bunch a lot of people think they are. Yes the organization at the top is bananas but most of the rank and file are just hunting folks.

[Beartracks]

3. Too bad their NRA represents manufacturers, not owners. n/t