evidence: Consistent with other recent polls, more Americans want stricter gun laws than want less strict laws or no change. More than half of Americans (54%) want stricter gun laws, 25% want no change, and only 13% favor less strict gun laws. [...] Four in five Americans at least somewhat favor enhanced background checks for prospective gun buyers under 21, including 86% of Democrats, 78% of Republicans, and 73% of Independents. Americans showed a similar pattern when asked about their support for expanding criminal and mental background checks for buying guns to include juvenile records: 80% were in support, including 86% of Democrats, 77% of Independents, and 77% of Republicans. [...] People who personally own a gun (32%) are less likely to support preventing gun owners from carrying a concealed gun in public, compared to people from gun-free households (57%) and people from households where someone else owns a gun (51%). But gun ownership seems to generate less of a divide when it comes to enhancing background checks: 86% of people from gun-free households and 77% of gun owners support enhanced background checks for gun buyers under 21. Similarly, 86% of people from gun-free households and 82% of gun owners support including juvenile records in criminal and mental background checks.