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Minnesota Poll: Support remains high for universal background checks

Minnesota poll: Opinion on military-style rifle ban splits along partisan lines.

A strong majority of Minnesota voters support universal background checks on all gun sales and a ban on semiautomatic military-style rifles like the AR-15, a new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll has found.

More than 8 out of 10 Minnesota voters favor expanding criminal background checks to cover all gun sales, including those sold privately or at gun shows. And while legislation that would do so has stalled along party lines at both the State Capitol and in Washington, the Minnesota Poll found widespread support for the proposal across ideological, geographic and demographic lines.

One of the only deeply partisan divides over guns that the poll found was over banning “military-styled rifles” such as the AR-15. Support for a ban on such firearms was strongest among Democrats at 82%, compared to 35% among Republicans.

View the complete October 22 article by Stephen Montemayor on The Star Tribune website here.

After CNN town hall, Marco Rubio dismisses audience of survivors as ‘well outside the mainstream’

The following article by Aaron Rupar was posted on the ThinkProgress website February 22, 2018:

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Polling doesn’t back him up.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) seemed to score a remarkable own goal during CNN’s gun violence town hall on Wednesday, when he mentioned the possibility of an assault weapons ban as though it would be a very bad thing — and the crowd erupted in cheers.

“It’s not the loopholes, it’s the problem that once you start looking at how easy it is to get around it, you would literally have to ban every semi-automatic rifle that’s sold in America,” Rubio said, as the crowd broke out in a roar. Continue reading “After CNN town hall, Marco Rubio dismisses audience of survivors as ‘well outside the mainstream’”