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So much for the claim that “Nine out of 10 Americans support [expanded] background checks”

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

So much for the claim that “Nine out of 10 Americans support [expanded] background checks”

It is frequently claimed that 90 percent of Americans support the expanded background check bills that are being considered before different legislatures, though other surveys indicate that support for the actual bills is below 50 percent.

Well, gun control advocates were able to write up their own initiative (594) and put it on the ballot in Washington State. With what may turn out to be a 50-to-1 spending advantage ($9.5 million to what appears to be a couple hundred thousand ($1.7 million was spent on another gun initiative)), the initiative passed with just less than 60 percent of the vote.

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