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AP POLL: SUPPORT GROWS AMONG AMERICANS FOR STRICTER GUN LAWS
AP ^ | July 23, 2016 | LISA MARIE PANE AND RYAN J. FOLEY

Posted on 07/23/2016 8:39:58 AM PDT by PROCON

Americans increasingly favor tougher gun laws by margins that have grown wider after a steady drumbeat of shootings in recent months, but they also are pessimistic that change will happen anytime soon, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.

Nearly two-thirds of respondents expressed support for stricter laws, with majorities favoring nationwide bans on the sale of semi-automatic assault weapons such as the AR-15 and on the sale of high-capacity magazines holding 10 or more bullets.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 2016polls; 2ndamendment; banglist; fabricatednumbers; guncontrol; junkpoll; mediabias
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To: elcid1970
Background checks say it all. Lots of first time gun owners out there & their numbers are growing like crazy.

I'll drink to that, thanks!

61 posted on 07/23/2016 11:28:38 AM PDT by Paradox (Opinions can evolve, but Principles should be immutable.)
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To: PROCON

Just go away and hope Wikileaks hasn’t hacked you too.


62 posted on 07/23/2016 11:37:44 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: PROCON

According to my own poll, conducted recently, a greater number of Americans than ever before are getting wise to tendentious, BS polls conducted by biased liberals who like to manipulate BS news organizations.


63 posted on 07/23/2016 11:41:33 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Jack Hammer

What about gun survey polls conducted by criminals casing peoples’ houses?


64 posted on 07/23/2016 11:47:22 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: PROCON

1st rule of statistics:

If your results do not resemble the real world they are cr@p.


65 posted on 07/23/2016 11:49:36 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: PROCON

Yes that’s why guns are flying off the shelves.


66 posted on 07/23/2016 11:52:26 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Paradox

30% of all gun sales during Obama’s reign have been to new gun owners. Probably 30 million new gun owners in the last 7 years, a huge block of voters.


67 posted on 07/23/2016 11:57:16 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: PROCON

That is the worst propaganda piece I have read in a very long time.

None of her assertions remotely resemble reality.


68 posted on 07/23/2016 12:25:57 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: buffaloguy
30% of all gun sales during Obama’s reign have been to new gun owners. Probably 30 million new gun owners in the last 7 years, a huge block of voters.

I'm down with that. Plan to be one sometime this year myself!

69 posted on 07/23/2016 12:26:21 PM PDT by Paradox (Opinions can evolve, but Principles should be immutable.)
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To: PROCON

AP=BS


70 posted on 07/23/2016 12:36:29 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: PROCON
Because Prohibition curbed alcohol consumption and the War on Drugs curbed drug consumption and the War on Poverty curbed being poor and the ... and the ...

Why does anyone believe government fixes ANYTHING?

71 posted on 07/23/2016 12:44:45 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: PROCON

I suspect that this poll was engineered to support the Dem’s talking points and position on the 2nd Amendment during the convention next week. Trust me, they will be referring to this poll in their speeches.


72 posted on 07/23/2016 1:46:28 PM PDT by Liberty Ship ("Lord, make me fast and accurate.")
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Morons like those in this poll (if the poll is even true) are the reason I pulled the trigger today (pun intended) on an FN PS90. Also ordered a bunch of 50 rounds mags. This gun is on my wish list and I pulled it in to this year when I had planned on a 2017 purchase.


73 posted on 07/23/2016 5:18:35 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Dang, that's even scarier looking then an AK-15 or AR-47! :-)

I want one!

74 posted on 07/23/2016 6:02:04 PM PDT by PROCON (Americans First or Terrorists First - Choose in November)
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The FN P90, the fully auto version of the civilian PS90 which I bought today, is the exact gun the Secret Service uses to protect the President of the United States. And the round used in that gun, the 5.7 x 28, well the pistol which uses this caliber (the FN FiveseveN) is what British protective services use to protect the Queen of England. Those two point speak volumes as to the effectiveness of this round.

It is basically a rifle round adapted to a pistol. IMO, the next generation of ballistics as evidenced by the people who use it.


75 posted on 07/23/2016 6:58:43 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: Red in Blue PA

What approximate caliber is the 5.7 x 28?


76 posted on 07/23/2016 7:15:24 PM PDT by PROCON (Americans First or Terrorists First - Choose in November)
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To: PROCON

BULL!


77 posted on 07/23/2016 7:15:48 PM PDT by uncitizen (Gloves OFF! Go Trump!)
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To: PROCON

.22 going anywhere from 2000 fps to 2600 fps.

Look at the damage done by the Fort Hood shooter; that was done using 5.7 ammo in a FiveseveN pistol, ammo which many **claim** is not powerful.


78 posted on 07/23/2016 7:26:39 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: PROCON

Saying it doesn’t make it so. You could say the jews were in favor of gun confiscation in 1940’s because so many of the gave them up...


79 posted on 07/25/2016 9:43:38 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: PROCON
Americans increasingly favor tougher gun laws by margins that have grown wider after a steady drumbeat of shootings in recent months

I agree. It's time to imprison anyone attempting to criminally infringe on Second Amendment rights.

80 posted on 07/25/2016 11:59:42 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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