California has an “assault weapons” ban, universal background checks, a 10-day waiting period for gun purchases, gun registration requirements, confiscatory gun laws, serial number requirements for homemade guns, and many other controls, yet registered voters in California want even more gun laws on the state and national levels.
A poll from Stanford shows that more gun control tops the wish list of Californians. When respondents were asked to describe what what issue they were most focused on “the most frequently stated issue that they said would sway them is a ban on assault weapons: 58 percent of voters said this was very important to them.” In second place was a higher minimum age for long gun purchases, with “55 percent [saying] raising the minimum age to buy guns to 21 was pivotal.”
Californians’ support of gun control appears to be a break with the rest of the nation, where support for gun control has fallen 17 percent over the past 28 years.
A Gallup poll shows that national support for gun control fell from nearly 7 in 10, shortly after the Parkland High School shooting, to 6 in 10 now.
When national gun control support is broken down by party affiliation the Democrats carry the day. Eighty-seven percent of Democrats support stricter gun control but only 31 percent of Republicans do. Moreover, 73 percent of non-gun owners support more gun control while only 38 percent of gun owners do.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
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