"86% of Americans and 82% of gun owners support requiring all gun buyers to pass a background check."
Beth Wessel-Kroeshell stated on Jan. 22 in a published article that 86 percent of Americans and 82 percent of gun owners "support requiring all gun buyers to pass a background check" regardless of how they purchase them. [...] "Statistic: 86% of Americans and 82% of gun owners support requiring all gun buyers to pass a background check, no matter where they buy the gun and no matter who they buy it from." [...] A March 2019 poll conducted by Quinnipiac University found that 87 percent of national gun owners support "requiring background checks for all gun owners." The poll surveyed 1,120 national voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.