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Views on gun rights are split down the middle for Americans, but more lean in favor of an assault weapons ban than in opposition of one, a poll by The Wall Street Journal and NBC News finds.

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A recent survey found gun violence and incarceration rates are currently a bigger concern for minority voters than police brutality.

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Guns took number 19, with two percent of participants saying it was their top concern, while government took the top spot for the second year in a row.

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While 86% said they supported universal background checks for all gun sales, only 19% felt such measures would have any bearing on mass shootings.

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A Gallup survey released this week shows 58 percent of Americans approving of the NRA, and another shows 55 percent wanting stricter gun sales laws.

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The survey found 85 percent of Americans, including both Democrats and Republicans, favor expanding background checks, and 40 percent supported the NRA.

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For the first time in 20 years the American public favors gun rights over gun control, with coveted women and minority demographics tipping the scales, according to a new study.

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The percentage of Americans who believe a gun in the home makes it more dangerous is shrinking, news that's troubling for groups founded on that belief.

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Sixty-three percent of Americans polled said a gun in the house makes it a safer place to be, 30 percent said more dangerous and 6 percent said it depends.

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The sheriff announced there would be no guns allowed at the polling places in the county, but he thought he'd give it a try anyway. And apparently, this wasn't his first attempt to carry a gun while voting either.

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Don't miss our new section "Burning questions", dedicated to picking the brains of some of the smartest people I know--Guns.com readers.

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In the wake of the LAX shooting that left one TSA agent dead and several others wounded, a poll was released Dec. 12 that shows 59 percent of Americans support arming TSA agents. The poll, conducted by the Reason Foundation, comes nearly month after the Federation of Government Employees proposed creating a new class of […]

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