> Restricting access to guns is popular in this country. This is a very misleading statement. The only thing that is popular is keeping guns out of the hands

> Restricting access to guns is popular in this country. This is a very misleading statement. The only thing that is popular is keeping guns out of the hands of criminals - which has support across the board. That translates into general support for background checks. Almost no specific proposals other than improving background checks have broad support, and support goes down as more detail is provided. It is not true to say that there is some kind of general support for restricting gun ownership amongst anyone other than already convicted criminals (who don’t generally buy guns from stores anyway).