Gallup Finds Most Americans Oppose ‘Assault Weapon’ Ban

By Tom Knighton

If Democrats take control of Congress after November, one thing you can guarantee will be coming down the pipe will be a new attempt at an assault weapon ban, if not a ban on all semi-automatic rifles. It’s unlikely it would ever be passed, even by a Democrat-controlled Congress, at least in part because it would be vetoed by President Trump.

But we know they’ll try it and, if they get the blue wave they claim they’ll get, they might think they can override the veto.

The problem for them? It seems the American people aren’t exactly crazy about the idea.

Americans’ support for a ban on semi-automatic guns in the U.S. has dropped eight percentage points from a year ago, when opinions were more evenly divided after the mass shooting in Las Vegas. Last year’s measure was unusually high for the trend over the past several years; the current 40% is back to within a few points of where it was between 2011 and 2016.

The latest findings, from an Oct. 1-10 survey, mark the eighth time since 1996 that Gallup has gauged public opinion on banning “semi-automatic guns, known as assault rifles.” These types of guns, which reload automatically …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms